Kilts and Humidity / Heat

[sanddog28]

I'd like to get on my soap box.....give my take on this topic....and ask some questions/make a few points. :
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Perhaps I'm too traditional, but I'm also a bit mystified about these various posts that suggest that one should wear various types of high tech underwear underneath a kilt to stay cooler. Firstly, let's forget the fact that I've never considered the possibility of wearing underwear under my kilt, since the culture I was brought up in considered it to be "very poor form" (Nova Scotia) to commit such a "dastardly" act. Secondly, I do not understand how adding more fabric can make things cooler. I've competed in the sprints in track and field until the end of high school, and I've played Canadian Football at the University level (Running Back), and I've never known even lycra (which I have worn while competing in both sports) to make things any "cooler" for me. Although lycra it is supposed to be one of the best fabrics for making things cooler and taking heat away from the body...I find it makes me warmer regardless (As a Canadian I've played football under some frigid temperatures as well as hot ones). My logic is as follows: If even lycra makes one(me) warmer, I don't understand how any space age undies could do any better (at keeping me cooler), unless they are lined with some kind of cold pack, or "smart cooling nanofibre". I must sound like I'm 100 years old. Can anyone enlighten me on this topic?

lasrl let me see if i can help just a bit, while i agree with you i would never think of adding anything under my kilt; the concept of aditional fabric to keep you cool is very real these days, living in a place where 8 months a year see 85+ F temps and humidity always on the north side of 50 you learn how to stay cool. The moisture wicking fabrics used in most of the golf shirts i own as well as the under armour heat gear boxer breafs work in a specific way they lift the moisture off your skin and help it evaporate better, basically improving the way your sweat works... over the last couple of years as these fabrics have come more mainstream i have definitely noticed a difference.... But Ted definitely hit the nail on the head, genetics genetics genetics... both sides of my family settled in the south when they left England/Scottland so 200 years of living no further north than Atlanta Ga helps a body deal with the heat better than anything else.