As I understand it, cantle=formal and full mask=formal
Everything else could be used for daywear, including full mask.
Some might call you on wearing a semi-formal (read fur front) with a thrifty and combat boots, but certainly not me. It's an outfit, not a uniform.
I think this is right, but might not be 100% accurate as I am still learning accessories-dress-code.
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As I understand it, cantle=formal and full mask=formal
Everything else could be used for daywear, including full mask.
One certainly can wear a sporran with a cantle for rather "informal" daywear. Many, many styles of old sporrans have cantles. I believe Matt Newsome has a wonderful Fergusson Britt sporran with a brass cantle:
The Duke of Argyll wears sporrans with metal cantles to Gatherings and Games, and at daytime events of all sorts:
Kind regards,
Sandford MacLean
Last edited by McMurdo; 9th June 08 at 06:43 AM.
Reason: Fixed quote
I have been wearing the kilt for over ten years now, and have worn my only sporran- what you would call a leather day sporran- to both black tie and casual affairs. Given the material poverty in which MANY clansmen would have lived during the heyday of the Highland clan system, I have no quams whatsoever about declaring my lowly status as a poor and common clansman (and not to mention the fact that I am a starving artist). I think it's certainly nice if you can have the "proper" sporran for every occasion, but I feel that this tradition is based on commercial exploitation of our heritage.
Originally Posted by Brewboy
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