Which Color Goes Best

[stickman]

I was leaning towards the black, didn’t know why. Asked my wife what she thought. She picked the black one, she said that she saw no brown but there were black strips that matched the black sporran. However she is always on my case for not being coordinated.

[Silmakhor]

I was leaning towards the black, didn’t know why. Asked my wife what she thought. She picked the black one, she said that she saw no brown but there were black strips that matched the black sporran. However she is always on my case for not being coordinated.

Funky; I'd never even considered that some people would try to match the sporran color to something in the kilt!

[TNScotsman]

I agree that either would work, although I like the look of the brown with the tartan a bit better. I wonder if there might be a difference seeing it with the belt as well as the brown belt plus brown sporran might be a bit too much, where black would have less of a contrast. That's genuinely a question rather than an opinion; I have no idea if it will matter.

[Touchstone]

I could be a bit flashy for what I am going for, a Great Kilt. I see where most say it is more of a older daily look.

I think either pictured sporran looks too modern with a great kilt. Maybe think about a Rob Roy style?

[Silmakhor]

I could be a bit flashy for what I am going for, a Great Kilt. I see where most say it is more of a older daily look.

I quite like hunting sporrans with any look, even a great kilt. I don't think people will think the sporran is too loud in that situation.

[PiperPadre]

Which sporran goes best with this tartan, the brown or black?

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I prefer brown leather with my day wear, but black seems to go much better with blue than brown.

[OC Richard]

I tend to take the long view of things, including Highland Dress.

The long view is that leather "Day dress" sporrans, when they appeared around 1900, were brown.

Then in the 1970s the Kilt Hire Industry started taking off.

The hire outfits were based around black Evening jackets, but the accessories traditionally associated with those jackets such as seal Evening sporrans, tartan hose, and buckled shoes were reckoned too dear.

So a hybrid Hire outfit was created consisting of black Evening jacket, plain Day hose (but now white rather than the traditional Lovats and fawns), black Ghillies, and a new style of sporran dubbed "semi dress".

This was a leather Day sporran but done up in black, and often with the addition of chrome elements borrowed from Evening sporrans.

On the left is the Evening Dress that appeared after World War One, and is still to be seen today.

On the right is the new Hire type outfit.



This new sort of outfit never caught on with the traditional types including myself.

So for me a Hunting sporran, or indeed any leather Day sporran, only feels right in brown.

Here's me wearing a Margaret Morrison Hunting sporran in dark brown.

[DCampbell16B]

On the other hand, I like black day wear sporrans. My first day wear sporran arrived in the mail as brown. I immediately took my leather dye and dyed it black. That was in the late '70s and I still wear it.