Horsehair Sporrans

[Muddy]

Matt to the rescue as usual with an excellent reply.
I agree. I really love old Victorian photos of gents with
the horsehair sporrans and canes and the works. But as Matt
said it works better if you've got the old tweed jacket and vest
and stuff to go with it for it to work right (although I'm not at all
opposed to trying unorthodox combos...sometimes they look great).
One note I've noticed about the old photos as opposed to modern
made pipers sporrans though....I love how in the old photos the bottom
edges of the sporran tends to be kind of rounded and fringy i.e. not all squared
off straight and too short. In the old photos and paintings of cheiftains and
such the sporran bottom hangs ever so little below the bottom of the kilt.
I like that look. I tend to like period looks of all kinds though so it's alllll up
to the individual aye?
Cheers.
Muddy

P.S......whoever it was mentioned the pic of his grandfather in front of his
croft-----I'd REALLY love to see a picture of that if you can post it for us
here. That sounds like a great photo.
(Russ)