I'm usually a traditional kilt kind of guy, but in all honesty, traditional kilts are fairly limited in their functionality. I spend a lot of time outdoors, working around my homestead doing dirty work. Building/repairing fences, shredding pastures, digging trenches and laying water lines, mucking horse stalls and hauling manure, cutting trees and clearing brush... you get the picture. I'd sure hate to mess up a good traditional kilt doing that stuff. It's dirty, nasty work that's hard on clothing.

So usually I wear jeans. But now that I'm getting closer to 40 years old, I'm finding that I have a harder time with the heat than I used to. And maybe it's just that my body has taken a liking to the freedom of wearing a kilt and it's rebelling against blue jeans. I get so sweaty and sticky in my blue jeans that I feel like I'm stifling and I can't move. I need air and freedom of movement. So I've decided it's time to try a Utilikilt for my work clothes.

Since my birthday is next month, my wife wants to buy me a Utilikilt (bless her heart!). I'm going to go with a Workman model, but unfortunately I will have to special-order it since their standard lengths are for people much taller than me.

Anyway, I was perusing their site and admiring some of the pictures of folks wearing their UKs. I was particularly interested in this one and this one. I had pondered making myself some leg protection like that a while back, but what he is wearing would be perfect for the kind of work I do around my place while wearing a Utilikilt. Does anyone know what those are, where they came from, or who makes such a thing?