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    Not wearing a sporran with a trad kilt would be "improper." It would look funny, too.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sherry
    Not wearing a sporran with a trad kilt would be "improper." It would look funny, too.


    Sherry

    Double POSTER!!!!! haha

    any way same thing i said last time

    i dont wear one cuz i dont have one

    it is a matter of personal preferance

    just my 2cents

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    I will always wear a sporran. It finishes the kilt nicely and is a handy holder for keys and such. Even with a sport kilt! Not wearing one, to me, would be like wearing trousers all day with the zipper down.

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    I agree with most folks, a trad kilt should have a sporran in front of it, unless you are drumming or tossing the caber....i.e.- Highland gaming. Working kilts with pockets are a different matter.

    Outside of purely aesthetic reasons, where else would you put your car keys?

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    Good question, when I'm at home I do not wear a sporran but have to have one on when leaving the house, after all it's supposed to be a pocket.
    When I'm doing dirty work like maintanance on the car I leave off the sporran and put on a pig skin appron, keeps the kilt clean and protected.
    Some of the historians on this board will tell you the highland regiments used to work without sporran.Nuff said.

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    I wear one 99.9% of the time. I have a plain, simple one for work (a black and a brown), a couple of nicer sporrans for going out (RKilts and Freelander) and a formal one.

    I like to wear my work sporran so that it slides on the strap (never a chain), then I can slide it to the side for working or running from women

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    I think a sporran looks more masculine than a plain kilt, if only because it proclaims without a doubt that, "This is a kilt, fer sure!"

    Aside from that, now Eddie Murphy is singing in my head, "My... guy... wants... to... sporran all the time, sporran all the time, sporran all the ti-ime!"

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    Since the traditional styled kilts do not have pockets, a sporran is needed to carry your stuff. It also seems to complete the "look" for wearing the kilt.

    But then I've got a Pittsburgh kilt with all the pockets, so I don't need a sporran with it, although I've also got the clip on sporran and side pouches is I need the extra capacity.
    We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

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    A what?

    Quote Originally Posted by ByDand
    I will always wear a sporran. It finishes the kilt nicely and is a handy holder for keys and such. Even with a sport kilt! Not wearing one, to me, would be like wearing trousers all day with the zipper down.
    What are trousers, and what does a zipper do?

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    On my tradtional tartan kilts I always wear a sporran- even when just staying local ... on my Utilikilts I never wear a sporran.

    Brian
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