Daywear Sgian Dubh???

[OC Richard]

Boy, I don't know about this site. I am beginning to dread opening it up each day. For some time now I have been perfectly content with my one and only sgian dhu. Now I find that to be proper I should have one sgian dhu for daywear and one for evening wear. Will my wallet ever recover?

LOL

Thing is, by the 1930s Highland Dress had become highly compartmentalised with three quite strict categories 1) "Outdoor Dress" (or "Daytime Dress"), 2) "Evening Dress", and 3) military style costume.

In looking carefully through several old Highland Dress catalogues from the 1920s and 1930s it becomes apparent that Day Dress and Evening Dress were utterly different at that time, each with its own dedicated shoes, hose, sporran, shirt, necktie, and jacket. Not only that, but different kilts as well! Because these catalogues mention heavyweight kilts for Day Dress and "fine" lightweight kilts for Evening Dress. So of course sgian dubhs would follow suit.

Wasn't the case in the mid 19th century when the lines between those three modes of Highland Dress were not strictly drawn, and it was common to wear long hair sporrans and buckled shoes and full tartan hose with plain grey and brown tweed jackets (such as we consider to be for "Day"), and common to wear plain brown or grey hose and ordinary shoes with black jackets (such as we consider to be for "Evening") and so on.