Quote Originally Posted by Panache View Post
The sgian dubh is a part of highland attire, but in truth it is the least important part of it (in my opinion).

It isn't all that noticeable whether present or not
I almost wish I could agree with you Jamie, but I can't. Others here have referred to their fathers' pocket knives and that would be my father, too. For me -- and my grandfather and those before him -- the sgian dubh acts as that little utility knife used to cut string, remove thorns, slice cheese, carve a twig, gut a fish and on and on. Not, I must admit, the delicate plastic accessory of today, but a very sharp, hardy tool somewhat akin to the folding Buck in America, I suppose. And not, I would think, as needed today in an urban environment any more than that smaller one formerly used to shape quills.

But hardly worth an issue of who-will-win. I would gently back down and let the control lady have her way.

Ah, but the point: for me the absolutely least essential bit of Highland attire is that silly ornament called a kilt pin. Doesn't pin one thing to another, isn't heavy enough to weigh anything down and catches on every shrub by which I pass within a foot! I wear it, but it does annoy me.