Busbies certainly are, but then look at dress clothes in any society - they're always some archaic outfit that's traditional rather than practical.

Thansk Raedwulf and Spaw. Raedwulf, I don't think a proper hunter should be taking pleasure in the death (which is why the idea of those Victorian big-game hunters sickens me). In the stalk and the shot though, yes, and in the resulting food afterwards.

Food-wise though, I don't think there's anything "last-century" about it. If you eat meat, something dies in order that you can do so, and the supermarket culture can divorce you from that reality.

Graham.