Formal Sporran Options that Don't Use Fur

[jfellrath]

Hi all,

I have been looking through Thompson's So You're Going To Wear The Kilt lately and thinking about jazzing up my kilt wardrobe a bit. It seems that all the formal sporrans include fur of one kind or another, and I personally don't care for fur on my clothing.

Are there any formal sporran options that don't include fur? Would a nice black leather with silver trim/closures be okay? Or am I pretty much going to have to bite the bullet and get a fur one?

Jamie

[cavscout]

To my understanding, fur is not a requirement for formal ocassions though it is more common.

As long as it has the silver cantle and probably silver tassel chains it will still look very formal.

[RockyR]

There are leather dress sporrans with silver cantles and other silver "bits" on them. I was actually thinking about one for my formal wardrobe.

[Mark Keeney]

Look Here at this one. It is listed as semi dress but I think it would look fine.

[davedove]

I do have a black rabbit fur sporran for when I want to go the whole formal route. However, I also have a sporran I got from Celtic Croft that I think would make a good non-fur formal sporran (the colored circle of leather is red on mine).

[arrogcow]

Just my opinion. but I feel that if it is a nice sporran it can be worn to any event. I realize that some traditionalists will dissagree, and yes fur and silver do look fancier, but I still wear my Freelander sporran 95% of the time (to the point that I have sold all of my others except for 1). Why, because it is extremely well made and looks great and frankly makes my semi formal sporran look like junk.

I have thought about getting a real formal sporran, but when it is something that I would only wear 1-2 times a year (and then the only person at the event that would know it was "wrong" would be me most of the time), I see no real need to go whole hog, so to speak.

Adam

[auld argonian]

I still think that there's a market for "sporran falsies"...add on panels of fur or whatever that would make your familiar ol' best friend sporran look like a fancy dress sporran. I mean...if you're going to dress up, why not your sporran?

Best

AA

[billmcc]

I think a leather dress sporran with a chrome cantle would look good with formal and semi-formal attire. I am going to buy one in the near future.

Here are some nice ones:
http://scottishkilts.net/store/leath...s_sporran.html

Celtic Croft sells an economy version for $45:
http://www.kilts-n-stuff.com/Highlan...s_economy.html

[Panache]

I think a leather dress sporran with a chrome cantle would look good with formal and semi-formal attire. I am going to buy one in the near future.

Here are some nice ones:
http://scottishkilts.net/store/leath...s_sporran.html

Celtic Croft sells an economy version for $45:
http://www.kilts-n-stuff.com/Highlan...s_economy.html

I have one of the Celtic Croft ones (slightly different cantle design) for the price and how often you need a dress sporran you just can't go wrong.

Cheers

[andyfg]

Are there any formal sporran options that don't include fur? Would a nice black leather with silver trim/closures be okay? Or am I pretty much going to have to bite the bullet and get a fur one?

Jamie

Jamie,

It's unclear from your post whether you don't want fur because you don't like it (the feel?) or because you have (philosophical/moral) objections to fur products. If it is the latter, there are some sporrans sold quite cheaply which have "fake" fur. I bought one. The fur is synthetic, the back of the sporran is leather. It does look rather nice (I wore it for a wedding recently). In fact, when it arrived I thought it was rabbit, until you look at the back of the "fur" and see the material. Can't beat the price. I think there was another thread on this a few months ago. The eBay picture is not quite what arrived, less "woolly" looking and more like rabbit type fur.
Fake fur sporran