Sporran Advice

[Riverkilt]

Aye Turpin,

You're right. Some do. But its been my experience that most large sporranmakers and most sporran resellers don't show the size of their offerings. Leathersporrans, L&M Highland Outfitters, Alexis Malcolm, Scotland Yard, House of Edgar, Sport Kilt, USA Kilt, Scottish Tartans Museum, and many many more vendors for some reason never mention the actual size of the many sporrans they offer for sale and present photos of them with plain backgrounds. A new person couldn't tell if they were for dolls, children, or a type of sleeping bag.

It still baffles me how the sizes of sporrans for sale ever became such secret information.

Hopefully, sporran vendors will follow the lead of others and include sporran size with the photos and other information on their products.

As consumers, we need to know...wanna have some fun, ask a vendor's rep on the phone or by email what the dimensions of a sporran you're interested in are...baffles them.

No, I don't wanna buy a pig in a poke, I wanna know the pig's size to see if it fits my needs....

Ron

[cacunn]

I suggest the "popcorn" rating for sporrans. The site selling a sporran fills it with un-popped popcorn and then publishes the weight of the popcorn the sporran can hold. The second question would be can a softball easily fit into the opening of the sporran. If a softball will fit in the opening then most hands, with something in it, will also fit.

Low cost test and if everyone uses it it would be comparable.