Have you/would you wear this?

[Spuggs]

Ok, odd idea, may be starting something new or perhaps not. Have any of us worn jeans, dress shirt (or even plaid button down) with sweater or jacket and also a sporran as an accent piece? Considering doing just this for an art gallery opening tonight. A tad cold and damp here in Regina SK right now. Ouch

[Chas]

No. Sorry, some things are just wrong.

Regards

Chas

[creagdhubh]

Uh, no. Sporrans are meant to be worn with Highland dress.

Cheers,

[Spuggs]

Whew, thanks folks. Wouldn't want to look sillier than I already do. Was thinking of that old classic Circle Jerks iconic image of the guy with jeans, kilt, Doc Martens.

Really guys, thanks

[auld argonian]

I've worn a sporran with jeans...one of the leather Stillwater Nightstalker ones, specifically. Just needed the extra cargo capacity and the sporran was handy...why not? Several people recognized it as a sporran and commented that it was a good idea. Lots of people asked what it was and also commented that it was a good idea...and a more manly alternative to a fanny pack/butt bag (as usual, sorry UK residents, it's still called a fanny pack in these here parts).

Mind you, this was on casual occasions...not dressy or even semi-dressy...though I don't see the harm. The current crop of suits and sport coats that I see are cut rather short in the body so a certain visual balance could be had by wearing a sporran.

Best

AA

[Tobus]

Another *** for the idea that a sporran with trousers is just wrong and weird. If you have to go that route, wear a fanny pack.

However, I've considered wearing a tweed Argyll jacket with trousers (slacks or khakis, not jeans). To most folks, it would just be an interestingly-cut jacket. Even though it's wrong*, it still wouldn't look as wrong as a sporran with trousers. When a sporran is taken out of the kilt context, it would just be a bizarre crotch-mounted man purse**.

*It wouldn't be wrong with tartan trousers/trews.

**Sporrans were historically worn with the old-style trews which were more like tartan tights, as seen below.

[tundramanq]

I can see the use of pack or sporran, If I ever get ill and wear pants again I once wore pretty snug pants and thus the pockets were pretty useless for more than a thin wallet.

[imrichmond]

I agree with the above comments. I have certainly never seen a man wearing a sporran with regular street clothes. When I was in Paris on sabbatical in the early 1980s, though, there was a fashion fad that consisted of using sealskin dress sporrans as women's shoulder bags. The sporrans were sold in many boutiques as "bourses écossaises" (Scottish purses) and I saw many women carrying them with the waist strap used as an adjustable shoulder strap. When I returned to Paris six years later, the fad was over and I didn't see a single one.

[tundramanq]

I don't think any non cantle, non horsehair sporran would be even identified as Scottish or highland - even with the Tassles - here in the US without the kilt.
The reverse of it being called a purse or fanny pack worn in front with the kilt - "John Q Public" is just clueless on these things.

Now I need to dig out my old fanny pack and add tassles for my kilts....

On second thought, I am serious, the packs are less than $20, wide giving easy access and shallow enough vertically to ride above the tender bits. Hmm - Are the tassles on a day sporran optional?

[auld argonian]

Oh, Christ...why would it be wrong? Cause it's "traditional Scottish dress: for use with KILT only: violators will get a severe look of disapproval from a bunch of guys with little pom-poms on their hats!"

After having been here for several years and seeing some photos of some REAL fashion catastrophes, I'd say that wearing a sporran with pants is pretty small stuff. I have less trouble with a guy wearing a simple leather sporran with his jeans than I do with seeing some of the forum members wearing formal sporrans that are WAY over the top with daywear...that's more a fashion faux pas than a sporran with pants but I see people continuously trying to "out Scotty" each other by wearing sporrans that are just way too much...AND at Highland Games during the daytime.

This is one of those situations where I'd certainly reserve judgement until I actually saw what the wearer looked like...I can't dig this "that's just categorically wrong" outlook on it. And a fanny pack? In spite of the fact that several of my cop buddies use small leather ones to carry their off duty cop gear discretely, if there's anything that's "out", it's fanny packs.

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AA