Most other long-distance hikers are a practical lot. You're out there hiking 10-12 hours a day, 20-30 miles a day, with a pack on your back, for 5-6 months at a time. You get a real sense of "if it works go for it" out there. I know that after seeing me hiking in a kilt many other hikers picked up kilts of their own (mostly Sport Kilts, simply because they're so accessible and have a rapid turn-around on orders). Most of the women who were hiking around me either started in, or switched to, skirts. Kilts and skirts are simply more comfortable to hike in!

Andrew.