I'm past master of my mother lodge (Greenleaf #117, Cornish, ME in 2000), but I wasn't a kilt wearer until 2003 so I never wore a kilt in lodge until last year.

I'm helping out the new Master and have taken on the chair of SW of Mt. Moriah (my affiliate) Lodge this year and Wednesday we have a MM degree. It is finally warm enough here in Maine for comfortable kilt wear, so the JW and I both will be kilted. I, in my new Stillwater HW Black 'shadow tartan' and he in his belted plaid. (My several UK Mockers don't seem as formal to me as the HW wool Stillwater.)

We are in a very rural location and some of the brothers just don't see kilts as an appropriate attire at all, much less for a more formal degree work night. Oh well, they need to remember that it is supposed to be the internal qualifications of a man, rather than the external that are important to Masonry.

I've been thinking about the sporran question too. I think I'll end up wearing my small Buzz Kidder sporran and that likely off to the side or in the chair next to me. The JW plans on wearing his sporran over his apron. While I've seen this done, it doesn't seem 'right' to me and wearing any sporran under the apron, sounds uncomfortable.

I do hope that you enjoy your FC degree and many long years in the Craft, my brother. I often present the last lecture and the charge for the FC degree. Even more so than the MM, I find the FC degree to be the most richly meaningful work for me.