Casual Warrior Unbelted With Purple Kilt Hose Experiment

[Larry124]

...I don't know about being beltless. Looks like something is missing. ... Me? I feel undressed without a belt. Also I think the kilt looks more complete with a belt.

Those are my thoughts also.

But we each have our eccentricities. Me, I'm not crazy about centered sporrans. Any of them. I hang the Nightstalker from the waist belt and to the side. Or wear a fanny pack on the hip instead.

[James MacMillan]

Those are my thoughts also.

But we each have our eccentricities. Me, I'm not crazy about centered sporrans. Any of them. I hang the Nightstalker from the waist belt and to the side. Or wear a fanny pack on the hip instead.

I fully understand your feelings about centered sporrans. That's one of the reasons that I don't like nor use the sporran hangers that some here like. While I generally wear my sporran centered, I do twist it to the side quite often: Like now, seated at the computer on a chair that has a built in mouse pad on the right chair arm, the sporran gets shoved to the left to get out of the way; When driving, I also place it to the side to get it out of the way of the seat belt and the steering wheel; When working in the garage at my small workbench, I shove it to the hip which serves best to keep the front clear for working.

-But when out walking I want that sporran right in front where I can reach the stuff inside quickly and also to watch it closely. The fanny pack on the fanny lacks security for me. The historians among us will point to illustrations of pouches worn on the side as indications of the first sporrans, and they may be right. Make up your own mind as to what to believe. Don't trust something, just because it is written down somewhere. Just as lies can easily be placed on the internet by anyone, these same lies (or if you like - untruths) could be printed on paper by our forefathers. Proof of these lies (or at best, misinformation) has been shown in the early books of tartans written by certain brothers, for instance. Generally, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Or to put it another way - When your individual BS alarm goes off, be careful!

Centering the sporran, and indeed wearing the sporran is and should be an individual choice.

After all, if we are wearing a traditional kilt, which has no pockets, we need somewhere to put our stuff!