Too Cold for a kilt...not likely

[possingk]

Well while traveling to Buffalo this weekend for thanksgiving, I packed two sets of clothes for each day one for wearing a kilt and one for wearing pants. The weather was supposed to be cold less than 32 for each day, so i didnt' know what it would be like with kilts on. I had heard everyone say I would be fine, but I had lived in Buffalo for 24 years, and I know how cold things are there, so I worried. Everyday I went out kilted with no problems once so ever. Then on Friday we went to the movies and while the movie was going on we got 6 to 7 inches, so I went home to snowblow for my father. here are some pictures:



and



The kilt was a black SWK economy, and I was toasty warm the whole time.

[Riverkilt]

Great pics!!

Just watch where you blow that snow!...don't get none up yer kilt laddie...

Was out walking about town today, was 28 degrees and windy. Wearing my UK blue denim kilt. Walked past a couple firefighters. One said, "I'll bet you're cold." Told him no, was probably warmer than he was in pants, as he well knows, heat rises. He just smiled and nodded in agreement.

Ron

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Good pics, but that second one may have people wondering if the heat you are feeling is not the devil inside, as evidenced by your glowing eyes!

[MacMullen]

I hope the wind was blowing the right direction. When it's wrong, it's like you're standing inside your own homemade blizzard. With all of the snow on the front of your kilt, I'm guessing that you experienced some of that action. That'd be a little *too* refreshing.



I have plenty of opportunities to blow snow, but I don't think I'll be trying it kilted.

[GMan]

I love "playing" in the snow while kilted by moving that white stuff around.

People do seem to have a major misconception about the warmth of the kilt, if only they could find out.

Thanks for those great pictures.

[Ranald]

I love "playing" in the snow while kilted by moving that white stuff around.

People do seem to have a major misconception about the warmth of the kilt, if only they could find out.

Thanks for those great pictures.

I have to totally agree here, I was worried too about cold legs but to my amazment I'm just fine and with more knee showing than I thought I could handle.
Windy days though, I'm yet to work out a system to keep the kilt down, might try some lead fishing weights on the bottom, and yes I'm serious !

[MacMullen]

I love "playing" in the snow while kilted by moving that white stuff around.

People do seem to have a major misconception about the warmth of the kilt, if only they could find out.

I've been outside in the snow with my kilt on plenty of times. I was talking about snow blowing up the kilt as a result of the snowblower. Snow outside the kilt is different from snow inside the kilt.

That said, I think the warmth of kilts in the winter has been compared to wearing mittens as opposed to gloves (trousers). I agree, I wouldn't hesitate to go out in the snow in my kilt, just not for snowblowing.

[MACKAY]

Just another beautiful day in Buffalo :-O

Brian

[Mike n NC]

Hes pulling the wool over our eyes, guys. I've been up there where he is and those pictures had to have been taken in July. In November they don't clear snow...they dig tunnels.

Great Pics!!

Mike

[Riverkilt]

Hey Ranald,

I live on a place called "The Windy Mesa." Thought about those weights too...even went to WalMart looking for curtain weights.

Have done a lot of hiking in the boonies in the wind to get used to having the kilts fly around. Usually not as bad as I fear when the wind catches it.

Yet, don't know a kilt out there, that if the wind catches it right, won't fly up with the apron in your face and a free show below...freaked out some poor Navajo grandma at the Tuba City Swap Meet last summer.

Not sure I'd wanna get whomped in the noggin by those weights when they flew up.

Only thing that helped me was noticing that when its windy the ladies often walk with their arms straight down at their sides, sort of like a mobile position of attention, to keep their billowing Navajo skirts from flying up.

Figure if I can do that "butt sweep" when I sit down in a kilt I can hold my arms there too to keep the kilt down. Works for me.

Of course a 16 oz Strome kilt gives less trouble in the wind than a kilt made of synthetic material.

Don't have much problem with the UK Workman's or the Survival II when the little apron toggles are secured.

Ron
Who lives on a mesa between a deep canyon and a broad lake...the wind is almost always blowing.