[ccga3359]

Originally Posted by turpin

You can plot, but you can't hide, Mr. McFarkus. You'll never beat the price I gave you, though.

I want one of those too! So beautiful!

Turpin for research purposes you should get one and to help defray he cost charge McFarkus a little bit extra. He'll never know .

[Dirk Skene]

Personally I go for the idea of fur with a cantel & 3 tassels . But that's just me.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

If it were me, I'd sell some else's kidney and buy a sealskin sporran with a silver (not silver plated) cantle and view it as an investment. The $160 sporran I bought in 1970 would now cost over a grand to replace.

[Bugbear]

I have one plain, brown rabbit fur sporran, and this is how I use it:

* I have removed the picture because that link might not work in the future. The fur sporran can be seen in my pictures over in the gallery or in my albums.

That is about as dressy as I can go right now: no jacket yet. However, I'm looking into having a brown corduroy jacket adapted for kilt wear to go with this outfit folowing MacMillan of Rathdown's suggestion, as well as, brown kilt hose.


I do usually like to dress nicely, but formal events aren't a large part of my life right now. I have a couple of three piece suits and so on in case a wedding or something like that comes up.
Hopefully it looks alright...

* as Chef pointed out, I am wearing my flashes incorrectly in the picture. I have started wearing them correctly sense this picture was taken. Thanks Chef.
Also, someone photoshopped out the misplaced flash for me since this discussion. And I have converted a brown corduroy jacket and waistcoat to complete the outfit.

[BoldHighlander]

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Hopefully it looks alright...

You look great Ted

[Bugbear]

Originally Posted by BoldHighlander

You look great Ted

Thank you, BoldHighlander.

* The driving cap is a matching tweed to my shoes, though you can't see my shoes. I hav thought of trying to match a tweed jacket to those, but in my mind that is too much matching tweed. Perhaps a corduroy driving hat, tweed jacket, and brown shoes would be a second option.

[Chef]

Ted you look good and sorry to nit-pick, but both the pieces of your flashes should go on the outside of the leg, not one on the outside and one on the inside as you have it.

[Bugbear]

Originally Posted by Chef

Ted you look good and sorry to nit-pick, but both the pieces of your flashes should go on the outside of the leg, not one on the outside and one on the inside as you have it.

Thank you Chef. I was made aware of the incorrect placement of the flashes a while back and have corrected that. I am glad that you noticed, though, and thanks again. I will put a note on that post pointing that out.

[Chef]

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Thank you Chef. I was made aware of the incorrect placement of the flashes a while back and have corrected that. I am glad that you noticed, though, and thanks again. I will put a note on that post pointing that out.

Just in a days work for a kilt snob; glad to be of service.

Some of them come sewn together but since yours didn't I can't say that your idea is illogical. The only reason they probably go on one side is that the original ones were tied so the loose ends would have been together.


**We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...

[Chef]

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

If it were me, I'd sell some else's kidney and by a sealskin sporran with a silver (not silver plated) cantle and view it as an investment. The $160 sporran I bought in 1970 would now cost over a grand to replace.

I'm with you. I have one with a silver (not silver plated) cantle and mink. I don't want to know what it would cost to replace it. I know some are big fans of the full mask sporrans, and while I don't dislike them, I much prefer the silver cantle and fur look for formal wear. I think the full mask looks better for less dressy occasions.