Kilt Accessory Themes

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

As I'm sure you've pick up from Jock Scot's postings, in Scotland nobody really worries about "matching ties and hankies". As one of the traditionalist fuddy-duddies here, I can tell you that I don't go in for all of this "clan crest" stuff on belt buckles, sgians dubh, kilt pins, sporrans, and what-nots. Day wear and evening wear I use a blanket pin for a kilt pin, and my day wear sgian dubh has a horn handle. Eventide I swap it for a silver mounted one with a black handle. I have a rather simple leather sporran for day wear, and in the evening wear a full-face muskrat sporran or, if the event is black tie, I wear a seal-skin sporran with my crest discretely engraved on the cantle.

To me it seems enough to wear a kilt in one's clan tartan, and a "clan badge" in one's bonnet. I tend to think anything else is over-kill.

[macwilkin]

As I'm sure you've pick up from Jock Scot's postings, in Scotland nobody really worries about "matching ties and hankies". As one of the traditionalist fuddy-duddies here, I can tell you that I don't go in for all of this "clan crest" stuff on belt buckles, sgians dubh, kilt pins, sporrans, and what-nots. Day wear and evening wear I use a blanket pin for a kilt pin, and my day wear sgian dubh has a horn handle. Eventide I swap it for a silver mounted one with a black handle. I have a rather simple leather sporran for day wear, and in the evening wear a full-face muskrat sporran or, if the event is black tie, I wear a seal-skin sporran with my crest discretely engraved on the cantle.

To me it seems enough to wear a kilt in one's clan tartan, and a "clan badge" in one's bonnet. I tend to think anything else is over-kill.

What Rathdown has said is spot on, INMHO. It's sort of like the unwritten "rule" regarding lapel badges -- any more than one is overkill.

T.

[JSFMACLJR]

I don't buy into this these business at all. My kilt is made of cloth in my clan's tartan. Sometimes I wear a clan crest badge on my bonnet, but usually I wear my own crest. I do not even own a kilt pin or a belt buckle with any form of clan crest on them. Now this is just MY PERSONAL OPINION, but I think those kilt pins made like a sword with the clan crest badge soldered on look a bit too much! Again, I repeat, THAT IS MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION. By all means feel free to wear one if YOU like it.