Father Bill:

I found myself in a very similar conundrum, and you can see the results of my thinking in this thread:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...64#post1362064

Essentially, I gave in to my lust (mea maxima culpa) for the same brown L&M "Duncan" Hunting Sporran for daywear, and then purchased an inexpensive gray fur dress sporran with a chrome cantle and chrome tassels.

I wear the hunting sporran with black or brown shoes for daytime events like Highland Games and for general knocking around. The gray fur sporran goes very nicely with my Lovat green Argyll jacket and waistcoat for late afternoon/dinner events, and that was part of my calculus.

However, the brown hunting sporran, to my mind, is not at all suitable for evening wear. My evening kit is all black and silver and my dress pumps are patent leather with grosgrain ribbon trim, so broguing doesn't enter into my particular equation. The variations in earlier posts in this thread -- black hunting sporran with chrome cantle -- might satisfy your evening wear need, but I'm convinced by the people who say that variation is more typical of pipe bands, so I decided to go with a more "civilian" dress sporran.

Doesn't help, I know, as I have probably just whetted your appetite for the Duncan sporran but that's how my thinking went.

Rodger