How Short is too short? Kilt length.

[Dale Seago]

Hi Dale. . .

. . .Please could you clarify if brown soft sporran is attached to chain or directly attached to belt through back of sporran, like old style shot pouch as worn by curator of museum in Scotland.

Welcome to the Rabble! If you're asking about the one in the photo I posted on page 2, there is no chain involved, just a leather sporran strap that passes through a slot on the back of the sporran. I took a photo of it just now:

[Roderick Powell]

Good Morning Dale.
Thank you for your sporran photo. Certainly looks like the old traditional style belt hanging sporran.Could be an improvement on my hard backed chain sporran.The three leather thistles sound like a drum when I walk.
I do not like the hard leather on my thiegh. Yours sits higher on the kilt.
There is a limit as to how high one can chain up a sporran and sit down correctly.That is why I prefer my hairy pipers sporran ,fashionable at the turn of the centuary.Not as stiff at the bottom.
Please can you tell me where I can get one.Would be ideal for carrying my days supply of porage oats and black powder musket balls.
Perhaps you will realise why I am leaving South Dorset, England and heading to Cornwall, as far south as I can get.
Any comments from the experts please Roderick

[TheOfficialBren]

Fish...,

First off--


Secondly, a lot of guys, myself included, prefer what is called a 'sporran strap.' this is simply a thin leather...well...strap that often has a small buckle on the end. It resembles a thin belt. The strap is fed through the portion of your sporran where your chain hangers usually go through. It is buckled on and then the buckle is slid to your back.

Personally, I find it to be more comfortable than a chain and it saves wear and tear on my kilt.

Happy kilting!

[Katia]

There is a limit as to how high one can chain up a sporran and sit down correctly.

Very true. Though I tend to push it, simply because if worn too low, it "bumps" too much as I walk (hit by my thighs), and then the knots on the tassels make too much thumpy racket and I sound like my own drum corps (as evidenced by the most recent Tartan Day-- I come down the hall, and my coworker looks up from the copier: "all right, I have to know-- what's that noise?")

[Standard]

I too like to have my kilts hit just at the top of my knee, and no lower than the middle of my knee. When my kilt rides at the top of my knee I have much less irritation on the tender back my leg at the knee than if the kilt rides lower.

[English Bloke]

About here.

[Dale Seago]

Good Morning Dale.
Thank you for your sporran photo. Certainly looks like the old traditional style belt hanging sporran.

. . .Please can you tell me where I can get one.Would be ideal for carrying my days supply of porage oats and black powder musket balls.

It's from the Ferguson Britt line of sporrans, and the leather is deerskin; that particular model is the Glen Shira Mor. For more info and the many styles and cantle options available, look here:

http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/fb_sporrans.html

The maker tells me I have more of his sporrans than anyone else in the world.

[OC Richard]

This is too short

[TheOfficialBren]

Oh. My. Gawd!
I sure hope those lads are having a laugh! That is not good. I only like to see pretty ladies in anything that short!

[flyrod6057]

ACK! I can never un-see that Richard!