R.R. MacIan prints

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I recently bought the book "The Clans of the Scottish Highlands" illistrated by R.R. MacIan. While looking at all the pictures, I noticed that almost every highlander is wearing a horse hair sporran. I know they all probably wore those because it was the fashion in that time period, but why dont more folks wear them now? Is it a fad that has passed?

Second, you talk about clothes not matching. Holy Moses! If you were using that as a guide to dress, you could wear just about anything with kilt. All colors of hose, shirts, and garters. Though, I noticed most had red garters no matter the color of hose.

Could (not should) we today, use these pictures as a referance/guideline?

Example: many wear green and black diced hose with thier kilt (no matter of tartan, green based, red based they didnt seem to care).
Could we wear a horse hair sporran everyday casually as they did?

Thanks and please feel free to post images of the prints, if you can find them