Sgian Dubh casual, formal, both?

[Tommy Hunt]

LOL! So we did! Please don't think I've gone on a rant-- As I said earlier I think that's a nice looking sgian, and certainly the "SG Politzi" aren't going after it.

The clansman's badge looks to be a bespoke item-- and quite well done.

Cheers!
Scott

What's a bespoke item?

[McMurdo]

What's a bespoke item?

This from Wikipedia:

Bespoke is usually a British English term for tailored clothing made at a customer's behest, and exactly to the customer's specification. Bespoke clothing is created without use of a pre-existing pattern, differentiating it from made to measure, which alters a standard-sized pattern to fit the customer. In American English, it is a synonym for "custom made."

Today, it is also frequently used for technical components specifically developed for a certain application (e.g. bespoke software), as well as in the automotive and cake decorating industries, when customers get a chance to have an automobile equipped or cake decorated to their specification.

Bespoke derives from the word bespeak, meaning 'to ask for' some thing. It comes from Savile Row, where a customer would bespeak a measure of cloth. The bespoke bolt of cloth was unavailable to any other client until the entire suit had been cut, assembled, and sewn.

Recently in Britain, a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority means that it no longer applies to only handmade garments

[Tommy Hunt]

Ha! No wonder I couldn't find it.

Found a some pretty nice ones though.