What is the most versatile kilt jacket in your opinion?

[Ninehostages]

Everything with a vest... woolly and a vest. Scotland is way, way North, cold and very damp. The hills are/were covered in sheep and wool is the default fabric in Scotland. Most of the rest of the World has climate conditions very different from those in Scotland. Importing such traditional garb to places where it is inappropriate gives you satin-backed waistcoats, everywhere so that they don't drop dead from heat exhaustion. Time for a new design. Time for something that you can wear in the Sonoran Desert.

I belt out heat. I am a human furnace. It is an inherited trait that I can trace back to my Blair Atholl origins line (I'm dead serious about that). No doubt, natural selection over the millenia favoured that type of physiology and when I look around at the man-mountains at any Highland Games, it is probable that it is a widespread phenomenon among our fellow tribesmen. We left Scotland behind us, though. There is no way that I can wear a vest comfortably with a jacket before October or after April and even then, I had better be outdoors. The Scottish diaspora needs something more practical than Scottish exports that are designed for Scottish conditions.

(That wool WWII Army Battle Dress that the British were adamant would export to field conditions of the South of Italy .... didn't)

[OC Richard]

That wool WWII Army Battle Dress that the British were adamant would export to field conditions of the South of Italy .... didn't.

In the case of the 51st Highland Division, they arrived in Sicily in the same uniforms they had worn in the Western Desert, having come from Tunisia. They wore lightweight cotton shirts and pants (except for the pipers who were often kilted).

Two pipers in Sicily.