Dress sporran colour?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Generally speaking, dress sporrans (as opposed to those worn with day wear Highland attire) are fur or hair. Both goat hair and horse hair sporrans are enjoying a revival, and seal skin (if you can find it in the USA) is always a good choice. What makes a dress sporran a dress sporran is the cantle-- silver or silver plated is the standard, with pewter also popular. Full mask sporrans are also a good choice, but one has to be careful that the full mask sporran isn't so large that it overpowers the rest of the outfit; with the exception of goat and horse hair sporrans, anything over six or seven inches in length is probably too long for formal wear.

[creagdhubh]

Generally speaking, dress sporrans (as opposed to those worn with day wear Highland attire) are fur or hair. Both goat hair and horse hair sporrans are enjoying a revival, and seal skin (if you can find it in the USA) is always a good choice. What makes a dress sporran a dress sporran is the cantle-- silver or silver plated is the standard, with pewter also popular. Full mask sporrans are also a good choice, but one has to be careful that the full mask sporran isn't so large that it overpowers the rest of the outfit; with the exception of goat and horse hair sporrans, anything over six or seven inches in length is probably too long for formal wear.

Good information - especially in regards to the size of full-mask sporrans. Sporran maker, Kate Macpherson, adheres to a very traditional (regimental manner - think Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders badger sporran) way of creating her bespoke, full-mask sporrans, with the majority of them not being the 'mammoth types' one often sees here in the States.