Sporran Flapping

**Tobus** · 11th April 10, 07:37 AM

Or just carry a few bucks and ID in you hose and leave everything else at home?

This kind of crosses over with the discussion a couple of weeks ago on what people carry in their sporran. But I can't imagine being able to go anywhere with only a few bucks and an ID. What about car keys? If you drive, you gotta have those and they won't go in your hose. I have to carry a cell phone for work too. Sunglasses, a functional pocket knife, spare change, etc. etc. Without these things, I'm fairly useless!

**DougC** · 11th April 10, 04:38 PM

Sorry--couldn't help myself.

**dutchy kilted** · 11th April 10, 05:20 PM

I have a leather "flap" sporran my wife bought me when I started wearing a kilt. I didn't like the fact that the flap could not secure sine I pack a lot of stuff in there. Two pieces of velcro and it stays closed, and no problems with snaps.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 11th April 10, 08:02 PM

Snap? Mine closes with a stud that pushes through a "keyhole" slit on the flap. couldn't be simpler. I suspect that one of the problems in opening-closing a sporran comes from the fact that it isn't "broken in". All of my sporrans are at least 40 years old and well broken in, so they open and close... like a snap!

**Bugbear** · 11th April 10, 08:24 PM

Eek! MacMillan of Rathdown's sporrans were born before I was...

**Good Egg** · 12th April 10, 12:38 AM

We used to tape them to the front of our kilts with doubled over 'black nasty' tape. The same tape the SAS put over their faces when being photographed. I can't show you how this works on a photo because the black nasty is concealed behind the sporran but the SAS look like this:

**graham_s** · 16th April 10, 07:33 AM

Another vote for Thorfin.
I have a daywear from him, I have no problems with it.

**D.A. Guertin** · 20th April 10, 03:18 PM

I'm not fond of that style, personally. It's a bit too primitive for my tastes, but to each their own, of course. Here's the sporran in question (and, yes, I did intentionally cut off my own head when cropping the photo).

**bchunter** · 20th April 10, 06:52 PM

I'm another Turpin fan. The flaps are changable to afford different looks, and the fastener system is simple and works. Some of the flaps are substantial enough to stay closed without the tie.