Quote Originally Posted by The Scotsman View Post
"Attempts by self-conscious lowlanders to convert the picturesque dress of the Gael into a "quiet style" and deprive the garb of its ornaments or reduce it to the drab monotony of Anglo-Saxon evening clothes are un-Scottish and contemptible."

- Sir Malcolm Innes of Learney, The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland.
Hmmm. I think there's very solid ground on which to believe that plain-Jane leather day sporrans are very traditional and Highland in style...