Have to go with my wool tank despite today's weather.

[artificer]

So I'm getting ready for the first of our local games, my much loved PV kilt pressed and ready to go. I decided to go PV because the temperatures forecasted for today +80*f as well as the +50% chance of heavy rain, with plenty of humidity to boot.

As soon as I got the PV on I found myself thinking "you know, the tank really has much nicer swish" and five short minutes later I've got my 16oz Holyrood tank (made by our own xman) on instead.

Weather be damned, for me at least, it's hard to go back down in weight once you've got the feel of heavy wool.

Does anyone else find this to be an issue, or is it just me fixating on what's good and familiar?


Also, I'll check back in tonite with whether or not I'll need to have all the mud dry cleaned out of it.

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[Leoghan]

i do have some of that issue, in upstate NY summer days can be in the 90s with 90% humidity. there are a few days i prefer my PV kilts but more often than not i end up going with even my 5 yard wool ones.

[Riverkilt]

Not unusual for me to wear a wool tank in HOT weather...what is difficult for me to wear in hot weather is kilt hose...so may be wearing a wool kilt and sandals....some Scots must have dressed like that in the summer....maybe.....

[RockyR]

Not unusual for me to wear a wool tank in HOT weather...what is difficult for me to wear in hot weather is kilt hose...so may be wearing a wool kilt and sandals....some Scots must have dressed like that in the summer....maybe.....

+ 1 to Ron's comment.

Something I tell my customers:

A good quality custom (made to your measurements) PV kilt is like a VW Jetta. It's a nice car, gets you from A to B. Perfectly servicable.

A high quality wool kilt is like a BMW 6 series... VERY nice. Once you get used to driving the BMW, you appreciate the little things that make it cost more money.

Let's say you have to take your BMW in for service and have to drive the Jetta for a few days. You're not quite as happy w/ it after getting used to the BMW b/c it's "just not the same". The car itself hasn't changed... your experience has. Ditto the kilt scenario.

[unixken]

I've worn my 8yd PVs from HoS, and an 8yd 16oz wool, in summer weather, and as readily as I sweat in the heat and humidity, I don't recall one being any hotter or cooler than the other.

The hottest so far, that I've worn wool, was probably last year's games in Livonia Michigan. I wore my 8yd 16oz Buchanan Balmoral. It was about 90 degrees Fahrenheit as I recall, and humid. (Hence the water bottle, and brow-wiping cloth, on my belt.) Being wool made no difference... it breathed well.

[Mael Coluim]

There is always one in the crowd! It would have been PV for me.

Oh, and Glenmore or cotton kilt hose.

[unixken]

There is always one in the crowd!

And that'd be... ummm.... me! LOL
(Hey, we've all got to leave our mark on the world some how, right?)

[Mike in Dayton]

I have the same situation tonight. I was invited to an event at a new restaurant downtown. The restaurant appears to be up-scale but nothing fancy. I am sure most people in this group will be in jeans. I was going to wear one of my PV kilts. I am reconsidering that decision now. I won't know most of the people in the group and I am not sure how the lady that invited me feels about my kilts. She has seen me in kilts but has never made a comment about them to me. I am sure her friends in this group will be surprised to see a guy in a kilt. She is a work acquaintance so this is not a date. So maybe the wool kilt, nice shirt, and kilt hose. Storms are predicted tonight so the weather won't be ideal.

[ShaunMaxwell]

I guess it's all relative... And depends on what you're accustomed to.

80 degrees isn't hot by Texas standards. In fact, that's pretty pleasant. I recall it being 104 degrees at the Texas Scottish Festival a couple of years in a row (which until recently was held in June. They've since changed the date to May the past two seasons and it has been cooler, in fact so much cooler this year that I wore a tweed jacket and waistcoat the first night of the event... But that was very atypical weather!) All my kilts are 16 oz. wool, and I always wear hose with them to such events. The key down here is to drink plenty of iced tea, Irn Bru, Belhaven, or what have you!

Of course, I don't reckon I'd survive a winter up in your part of the world! I worked in the -20 degrees vault at Blue Bell Creameries one school year and summer when I was in high school and that was enough to convince me to stay in a warmer climate.

Hope you had a great time at the games!

[cable scot]

There's a happy medium, a shorter yardage kilt in wool. I have kilts in PV and kilts in 5,6 and 8 yards And the lower yardage kilts feel cooler to me at least.