Thoughts on materials....

[Barb T]

Kilts for Highland dancers are most commonly made from 11 oz tartan (DC Dalgliesh has somewhere ~ 100 tartans in 11 oz), and they look terrific and swing just fine:



Having said that, they do wrinkle more easily than heavier weight tartan. I do agree with Steve, though, that 10 oz is pretty light (and there actually is a difference between 10 and 11 oz.).

I'd also say that, as a piper, I wear a band kilt pretty much at least once every weekend from May through September (well, I did before COVID-19), and it's not the kilt per se that's hot. It's hot under the kilt belt (which isn't any different in an 11 oz kilt than a 16 oz one), and the kilt hose are hot (ditto). The back of a 16 oz kilt IS a lot heavier (in weight) than the back of a lighter weight kilt, and a 4-yard box pleated kilt in 16 oz is a well-balanced alternative that feels lighter in weight than an 8-yard trad knife pleated kilt in 16 oz.