cold!!!

[DWFII]

What does one do when it gets really cold and you'd like to wear a kilt but have never exposed your nether regions to that kind of abuse before?

I'm not talking about going regimental, just wondering if one might change one's "small clothes" in favor of something warmer or woolen.

[Dirk Skene]

Seeing you are in the far northwestern part of the U.S. I know you must get much colder weather than we do here in the mid-south. Around here it does not get cold enough for long enough to worry about it too much. I guess I'm lucky in that way.

[michaelbeeman]

I've been kilted and regimental full time for over 6 years. I started wearing kilts in the summer and just eased into winter. Now, having said that, living in Northern Colorado, it can get damned cold. There are days if I need to be out and about, I will wear a pair of silk long johns under the kilt. I think growing up in Michigan's U.P. must have done something irreversible to me, It has to get below zero and windy for me to consider my silkies.

[McMurdo]

I got myself a Militarty Replica kilt from What Price Glory to battle extreme cold, it seems to work fine as it is 22oz wool.

[davedove]

I have been in my kilt when the temperature was in the single digits and the wind chill was below zero. I had on an 11 oz. kilt and normal briefs at the time, along with thick hose. As long as I was moving, I was not cold at all. If I stood still, only my knees got cold from the wind.

Kilts are really rather warm.

[Galician]

As has been pointed out here in several threads, wearing a heavy wool kilt and wool hose does work to keep one's lower body warm. For the torso and head, there are the usual options.

You have to remember that it's estimated that we lose 40% of our body heat through an uncovered head.

I've gone kilted in 19F weather with a wind chill near zero, so I can say that dressing smart does work!

[escherblacksmith]

I have posted this elsewhere:

Stillwater Heavyweight, normal acrylic hose, with a secondary wool layer. Ecco boots, leather coat with worn thinsulate insulation. And, my Tilley.



-9F, -25F windchill.

I wore this whilst waiting in the dark outside for a bus to come take my daughter to school. No added insulation beyond the wool kilt.

[Alaskan Kilted Guy]

As long as you're not going to be in the elements for extended periods of time, it shouldn't be much of an issue. I have gone about my daily routine, regimental, at temperatures down to -40f, and not suffered any ill consequences.

[SFCRick]

Move!

[Ryan Ross]

Yeah, it's really a non-issue. I may live in the South, but I've been kilted in the Notherly latitudes (during the winter) on quite a few occasions. I had to wait an hour and a half, outside the Met in NY, to catch a cab one time. A small blizzard started, with 50-60 mph winds and a true air temperature of 16 degrees (-6 wind chill, if I remember). I leaned up against a little bench, to stop my kilt blowing up (13 ounce 4-yard affair), and the wind direction kept the aprons down on it's own... for the most part. I won't lie- it was cold as a witch's heart out there and my mustache was filled with ice, but I might well have been colder in a pair of pants than I was in that kilt.