Quote Originally Posted by billsides View Post
Hi,
I have just returned from a Scottish Country Dance demo in Aussie summer heat and am still wearing my Edinburgh made 13 oz SCD woolen kilt. It is in the Scottish Country Dance tartan which is substantially blue. Wearing their tartan is not essential, indeed it is rare. Any tartan is fine as are plain shorts and long socks, but kilts, even cheap ones, are far better to dance in. I recommend 13 oz wool for summer or packing for travel, but a well made 17 oz kilt should look better but I warn 8 yards of 17 oz material is a lot of weight to be carrying dancing but they swing the best. Large yardage 13 oz kilts are an ideal compromise. Lighter ones, and that means virtually all non-wool kilts, soon look scrappy and are unreliable in winds or during burls, doubt me? Just watch the light weight kilts that Highland dancers wear. Always wear something underneath if Scottish Country dancing as even 17 oz kilts do lift.

Bill
I can't speak for dancing, however whilst teaching an advanced arming sword technique I gave something of a show to the non-fighters. I teach sword classes within a couple of hours from ending my church services and unless it is a garbed meeting, I don't change out of the kilts that I wear to preach in. I was wearing an 8 yard PV kilt one day, and as part of a technique, I was required to spin around the person and put my arming sword to his back. In the process I must have moved fairly quick as all of the other students started laughing and some of the ladies were blushing. They promptly informed me that my kilt raised a good deal during the spin. I now pack a pair of swimming shorts to go under.