Quote Originally Posted by estimaa View Post

I can say now with some personal experience, there's 2-3 exceptions where a kilt is NOT acceptable:-
1/ under a car when you are being showered in oil and filth.

2/ Skiing, pretty obviously.

3/ wearing a kilt at over 30-33C is not a good plan. It's way too hot for that.
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Anything between 5-25C is ideal depending on the weight of it, and it's the only thing which puts you head and shoulders above anyone else when it's literally tipping down with rain.
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Anything from -25 to +5C is fine by me...
I enjoyed Estimaa's comments about actually having better resistance to cold in a kilt, but I'm surprised at his 'tolerable temperatures' numbers. Was there a typo there?
I made the definitive switch from legtubes to a kilt when I had to clear out from an office I'd worked in for 37 years, and the temperature was above +30 C every day; and basically, since then I have only ever tubed my legs 'under duress'.
I recognize two kinds of duress: social and climatic. 'Social duress' includes occasions where I am required to wear a (trousered) suit, because that is what all the other males are wearing – e.g. in a choir I used to sing with. It also included visiting my elderly mother, now departed, who never approved of my kilt-wearing. Otherwise, when other males wear a suit I wear a smart kilt and smart matching jacket.
'Climatic duress' has meant going for a longish walk (5 km) in temperatures below -15 C with a north wind, or closer to -20 C on a still day; but on cold days warmer than that (= -5...-15 C) I do then wear warm underwear and probably my lightweight hiking kilt under a topkilt. This is not in what I take to be Estimaa's usual homebase, but over the water to the north, in Finland. Otherwise I want to confirm what he says about kilts in bad weather – I have hiked in torrential rain in Galicia, Spain, and on Hadrian's Wall, in an Elkommando hiking kilt, and been far more comfortable than I would have been in trousers or even, I suspect, in shorts. In the UK I have not yet encountered non-kilt weather.

And there are of course some folk who go skiing – cross-country, rather than downhill – in a kilt; but I'm no good at skiing, so can't comment..