Hunter Style Black/Chrome Sporran w/Semiformal wear?

[Joshua]

This event is a semi-formal "party" - my Mom got her masters degree and my stepdad rented a vfw hall for her. I think most folks will be wearing polos and slacks so I may forgo the jacket for no-tie, shirt, and vest personally. If I go with the latter look, I will probably wear one of my daywear sporrans or my new fur+brown leather daywear I posted in DIY.

Hose will either be charcoal "popcorn top" with red flashes, or lovat aran-cable-knit with red flashes (one of these days I promise I'll get proper garters).

Kilt will either be my Blackwatch, or a Caledonia modern that is in the works currently.

[OC Richard]

Is this the type?



It's the old Hunting Sporran, traditionally in brown, done up in black with a chrome Evening Dress sporran cantle stuck on.

This is by far the most popular style of sporrans for pipe bands. They have a bit of "bling" but at the same time are less expensive than fur evening sporrans and have the advantage of having no dangling bits to fall off and get lost.

Several time World Champion Simon Fraser University Pipe Band wearing just these sporrans. At many competitions 90% of the bands are wearing these.



They're normally worn, by pipe bands, with black Argyll jackets, and it's a suitable match in a way, because both the Argyll jacket and the Pipe Band Sporran have the shape of traditionally Day Dress things but are dressed up by being made in black and having silver bits added.

Here in a Highland Dress catalogue from the 1940s you can see how Hunting Sporrans looked in the old days, brown with a leather cantle. Note, in the men's sporrans shown across the top, the clear demarcation between Day and Evening sporrans. The black hunting sporran with chrome Evening cantle stuck on is obviously a hybrid.