Originally Posted by
RockyR
Thanks for that!
I only got through part of it. My thoughts so far
1) I like Rocky's accent.
2) I completely disagree with the matching leathers thing. It's contrary to 300 or so years of Highland Dress tradition. From our earliest images down to modern times leather Day sporrans and Hunting sporrans have almost universally been brown, the brogues and belts have almost universally have been black. Even as late as the 1970s when I began kiltwearing I only saw black shoes, only saw brown sporrans, for years. The matching leathers thing is another example of projecting Saxon dress norms onto Highland dress, along with matching colours, putting belt loops on kilts, wearing belts to hold kilts up, having the waists of kilts go lower and lower, unbuttoning the bottom button of waistcoats, etc.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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