Quote Originally Posted by Galician View Post
What do you mean by a liner? Is that a seperate piece, like a woman's slip?

Last Friday I went to a formal function in full kilt kit. We had weather similar to yours that day (and the next). I decided to wear a 16 oz. acrylic kilt. I had no problem with the water, as a result, but it was not as warm as I would have wished.
I make the liners from woven material, as a strip with just a few small pleats to shape it into the waist. I then attach it to the reinforcing waist band - usually a strip of webbing, so the liner is more integral to the kilt than a slip. It is long enough to go almost from edge to edge of the kilt - so it is under both the apron and under apron.

I make the kilt waistband in a fairly standard way, but rather than folding the band over and attaching it to the material of the kilt I put the webbing under the waistband and attach it to that. I do not reinforce my kilts inside the pleats, as they are a rather basic design, but without a sturdy waistband the pleats try to dip into a curve centre back.

I have never found a really heavy acrylic to make a kilt from - I don't use much man made fibre material, having always prefered natural materials, but I might be tempted to try it if it was available in heavy weights.

I think I stayed as warm as I did because I was wearing so much wool - I suspect that there was steam rising when I reached the porch. I hurried home, I'd certainly not have lasted the night out in the open in those conditions, but for a short while it was OK.

I actually quite enjoyed the experience, even the thunder and lightening - I think I always have, even as a child, loved a really good storm, yet my mother and sister are terrified by thunder storms.

I don't go walking on golf courses though - or standing under trees unless there are tall buildings close by. I know about the Darwin Awards.