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    Keeping the briars off your legs

    These may not be scottish, but they sure do keep the
    briars from attacking your legs. I just bought a pair and
    found them to be very comfortable. The tall ones are
    about 18 inched high. They are very soft, like a glove
    for your feet. Also the "tongue" is sewed to the sides
    all the way up, so it never falls to one side. You can get
    them at Atlanta Cutlery. (Search for "boots")


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    Rather unconventional. Where would you be inclined to wear them?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)
    Rather unconventional. Where would you be inclined to wear them?
    Sherwood forest?

    Thank you,
    Scott Gilmore

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    While I have never worn them with my kilt (ok I have with my great kilt to ren fairs before I got a pair of better boots), I have had a pair of the tall ones for over 15 years. They are very comfortable, and I did wear them often back when I wore p&#ts.

    Adam
    "Down among the dancing quanta, everything exists at once." - Warren Zevon

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    Probably not considered too unconventional by
    native americans. Even if it were, I wouldn't let
    that bother me. I'm more concerned about
    functionality than fashion, particularly out in
    the wilderness.

    Scott is close. I do wear them in the woods, as
    well as the fields. Along with a workmans canvas
    kilt, there is only a small bit of skin around the
    knees that is vulnerable to briars.

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    There was a brief discussion a while back about wearing gaitors with your kilt...still haven't ahd occasion to try that yet...

    Best

    AA

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    Since Christmas I've been using these. In winter they fit over boots, early spring over sneakers, and for the last month I've worn them over sandals. You can feel briars when you walk into them, but they don't normally catch or stick. And there's the bonus of being waterproof - I've gone through calf-deep bog-muck in these and stayed dry.
    I am easily moved for sympathy for dogs, far more so than for humans, because dogs do not understand. There is no way to explain that you will return, that the vet will make it all better, that they cannot go shooting today because that is not what today is about. They cannot work out that their misery is finite and will some time end, and so their misery is magnified.
    Gerald Hammond
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