One kilt, several looks. A canny Scot's take.

[Nathan]

I understand that the semi-dress is an unpopular choice on xmarks although I don't mind how it looks with the black Argyll and long tie. I think that is the only jacket it really works with rather than being a jack of all trades sporran, it has a very narrow application.

As a morning dress equivalent, the black barathea Argyll with un-faced notched lapels is somewhere between very formal evening wear and tweed day wear and the semidress sporran is likewise somewhere between the leather day sporran and the evening fur and metal cantle sporran.

On the other hand, a day sporran or, as Calgacus ably demonstrates, an evening (formal) sporran with this jacket and tie works equally well or maybe better. It just seems somewhat odd to have an order of dress where most any smart sporran will work, really but there you are. It seems even more odd that the sporran genre that seems to have evolved in the 70s to fill this very niche as attire became less formal hasn't made the grade among many traditionalists. I can't argue with the logic, though. Why buy another sporran for just one look when either of the two I already have will serve as well or in the eyes of many, better?

Our own Jock Scot in his McRostie day sporran


A Kinloch Anderson model


The canny Calgacus himself


Oh, and I agree with the suggestions that this thread become a sticky.

By the way, McMurdo and I were talking and he reminded me where I'd seen similar style hose in the past. On the very smart Pipe Major John D. Burgess.