Underkilt - X Marks the Scot

Paul · #1 02-01-2010, 06:36 PM

Hi guys. I'm trying to order an underkilt for some freezing travels this year.
I've tried emailing info@jdez.com to order but I get a failure of delivery notice and they don't have any other method of contact on their website. Does anyone know how I can contact them, or if I can buy an underkilt elsewhere?

Thanks,
Paul

CMcG · #2 02-01-2010, 07:05 PM

I hadn't heard of J'Dez before but have heard of using a basic Sport Kilt or Stillwater Thrifty as an underkilt.

I did some real cold weather kilting this year too (-20 Celcius) and wore both fitted boxers and long johns that I rolled up so you couldn't see them under my kilt.

Or take this advice from the Wizard of BC:
"Take one standard pair of long johns.
Two lengths of elastic long enough to just go around the lower thigh (2-3 inches above the knee.
One pair of scissors.
A needle and thread or one sewing machine.

Put on the long johns and make a mark on the leg at mid-knee.
Take the long johns off.

Cut the legs of the long johns off at the mark you made.

Find your lengths of elastic and sew them into a loop just tight enough to stay in place by themselves. (Or about the tightness of a pair of flashes.)

Place the loop of elastic over the cut-off leg of the long johns.

Fold up a hem in the cut-off long johns and sew the elastic inside the hem.

You have now created KILT JOHNS.
congratulate yourself on a job well done with a wee dram."

Canuck · #3 02-01-2010, 07:14 PM

Wimps!

Pull up your hose and keep moving.

NewGuise · #4 02-01-2010, 07:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul.

Hi guys. I'm trying to order an underkilt for some freezing travels this year.

How cold, dare I ask? I've been out at -20C and lower, with windchill, and the worst is a little redness on the top of my knees where the kilt hits. I honestly feel warmer in a 4-5 yard wool kilt and wool hose than I do in trousers. My hands feel colder, in leather gloves, than my bare knees do - seriously. If your upper body is warm enough - wear layers! - and your extremities are well covered, the rest of you should be fine. An underkilt won't add much if anything to the insulating value of wool.

xena · #5 02-01-2010, 07:51 PM

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've heard warnings about the J'Dez website before. Don't expect much from them.

I'm not sure how much of an insulation value you'd get from one of them things anyway. You'd be much better off with boxers or cut-off longjohns. Underkilts are basically just women's slips marketed to kilt wearing dudes.

auld argonian · #6 02-01-2010, 08:06 PM

Yeah...why search out exotic things when a simple solution is as near as the local Walmart or whatever. If the need is there, there's no disgrace in wearing some conventional undergarment under your kilt. If it's going to be an obstruction later on when you reach your destination just excuse yerself to the loo and slip them off and stuff 'em discretely in yer coat pocket. One of the good things about wearing a kilt...accessibility.

Best

AA

jhockin · #7 02-01-2010, 09:58 PM

or .. you could just "brave it out", (if it IS REALLY FREEZING) , and wear regualr heavy wool long-johns - without cutting them off! you could always cover your knees, with kilt hose rolled up, to cover the longjohns

Jock Scot · #8 02-01-2010, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NewGuise

How cold, dare I ask? I've been out at -20C and lower, with windchill, and the worst is a little redness on the top of my knees where the kilt hits. I honestly feel warmer in a 4-5 yard wool kilt and wool hose than I do in trousers. My hands feel colder, in leather gloves, than my bare knees do - seriously. If your upper body is warm enough - wear layers! - and your extremities are well covered, the rest of you should be fine. An underkilt won't add much if anything to the insulating value of wool.

I could not have said it better myself.

cessna152towser · #9 02-02-2010, 02:00 AM

I think the JDez website hasn't been updated for several years, I do not think they are still in business.
Kilt liners are usually available from the USA on ebay, Comfilon do them in nylon and Anna Manning Porter of GBK Enterprises produces them in polyester in a wide range of colours to match any kilt.

skauwt · #10 02-02-2010, 02:11 AM

have a wee read through this topic i started last year

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/k...x.html?t=48166

if i can remember right someone went on about that company before and why to avoid it

to me a underkilt is purely for hygiene and nothing else

also a intresting note about a certain old kilty and silk boxers also in that post