tartan casual kilt: no belt no sporran?

[Blu (Ontario)]

I'm not sure I'd wear a kilt without a sporran .. or a belt. I think it's more because I don't really like the look of a bare kilt - I think the sporran and belt really put the whole package together.

A few weeks ago, I went out to dinner with my wife and in-laws. Just as we were leaving, my wife snapped this photo with one of those cheap disposable cameras. Argyll, turtleneck sweater, Xmarx kilt, kilt belt, heritage hose, wingtips..... no sporran.



Nothing but compliments, including one from an ex-pat Scot.

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[Martin S]

Nice (little) photo, Blu.
It would have been a shame to cover up that fine tartan with a sporran -- which half the readers would have found too high, and the other half too low, anyway.

I, too, am quite anti sporran and wear one only when I know I'll want to take my jacket off but prefer to keep my wallet handy.

Too often we see kilts pushed out of shape with a poorly hung sporran.

Martin,
Grenoble, France

[Colin]

I always wear a sporran with my (tartan) kilts. If/when the day comes that I order a freedom kilt I will likely not wear a sporran with that one. I just feel like tartan kilts look better with a sporran. It completes it all.

[Pour1Malt]

weel....

some o' us 'need' a sporran maire than others.....

(that is... some o' us have bigger bulges in oor kilts than others...)

my wife willnae let me gae oot withoot a sporran....

[Jimmy the Celt]

weel....

some o' us 'need' a sporran maire than others.....

(that is... some o' us have bigger bulges in oor kilts than others...)

my wife willnae let me gae oot withoot a sporran....

Yet another practical reason for the sporran!

[cavscout]

It seems I recall from another thread that the sporran was historically worn on the hip until the Victorian era when it was moved to cover the "bulge" for modesty.

My wife is the same about it. If you really think about it though, there is a much larger bulge in pants than in a kilt, it's just more obvious in a kilt.

[Moosedog]

Rob--

If you'd like to use that buckle on a wider belt, it should be possible to make/have made a belt that is narrower just at the buckle area but wider everywhere else. If it is made precisely to fit you it should look great.

Moosedog

[Jimmy the Celt]

It seems I recall from another thread that the sporran was historically worn on the hip until the Victorian era when it was moved to cover the "bulge" for modesty.

My wife is the same about it. If you really think about it though, there is a much larger bulge in pants than in a kilt, it's just more obvious in a kilt.

I recall reading that as well.

My girlfriend was somewhat scandalized by the "sporran" on my AmeriKilt. "That's all? It doesn't hide much." So she made me wear my Rob Roy sporran with the AmeriKilt.

~James

[Ruanaidh]

weel....

some o' us 'need' a sporran maire than others.....

(that is... some o' us have bigger bulges in oor kilts than others...)

my wife willnae let me gae oot withoot a sporran....

I'm glad I'm not the only one with that problem.

[Caradoc]

So she made me wear my Rob Roy sporran with the AmeriKilt.

Heh. My wife bought me a sporran...