Summer rugged outdoor wear: awesome or blasphemous?

[Muddy]

Don't change the hat. You look great in it and it works with the kilt fine.
If it were me? I'd lose the hose tops and gaiters and just wear the boots with socks. To me, that level of informality works better with the shirt and hat. But, that's just my opinion and only given because you asked yeah? Overall, you're rockin' it. Good job.

Edit to add: You could also keep the gaiters if they indeed offer snake protection and maybe go with more subdued hose tops that match the rest of the ensemble. Again, just my opinion. Pay me no mind (chuckle).

[Tobus]

Don't change the hat. You look great in it and it works with the kilt fine.
If it were me? I'd lose the hose tops and gaiters and just wear the boots with socks. To me, that level of informality works better with the shirt and hat. But, that's just my opinion and only given because you asked yeah? Overall, you're rockin' it. Good job.

Edit to add: You could also keep the gaiters if they indeed offer snake protection and maybe go with more subdued hose tops that match the rest of the ensemble. Again, just my opinion. Pay me no mind (chuckle).

The leggings aren't so much for snake protection (a rattler would punch right through that canvas). They're mainly to protect my legs and hose from thorns. My part of Texas abounds with thorned plants. Prickly-pear cactus, yucca, huisache, mesquite, agarita, cockleburrs, grass burrs, and countless more that I don't even know their names. For me to even walk out into my pastures to bring my horses in, I need leg protection of some sort. Boots and socks don't cut it, unless the boots are tall enough to go up to my calves (which these don't). I'd come back with my legs scratched up and my socks full of stickers. Even with the outfit shown in my first post, I think I need to ditch the garter ties, as the dangly ends would likely catch stickers.

I usually do wear 'subdued' colours of hose when wearing leggings, as shown below (those are the taller army leggings). Going with the military diced hose tops was an attempt to break from the norm and get creative.

[gary meakin]

Now that looks "right" to me

[opositive]

looks aside, wouldn't boots + hiking sox + hose tops + leggings turn your legs into sweat factories in our blistering southern summer months? that is my only concern about the hose tops.

[Tobus]

looks aside, wouldn't boots + hiking sox + hose tops + leggings turn your legs into sweat factories in our blistering southern summer months? that is my only concern about the hose tops.

I must be abnormal. My skinny legs just don't get hot. My feet do get hot and sweaty, but that can't be helped, whether I'm wearing trousers or a kilt. I have breathable hiking boots, but only wear them if I'm going to be doing many miles of pure hiking.

But as for my legs, I just don't ever feel like they're too hot. I see people complain all the time about how wool hose are too hot for summer, but it really doesn't bother me. Even with canvas leggings over them, it really doesn't make me feel like I've got too much on. I've worn wool hose and canvas leggings on 12+ mile day hikes, in 105-degree temperatures, and while I may be miserable in other ways, my legs being too hot is not a problem.

[creagdhubh]

I must be abnormal. My skinny legs just don't get hot. My feet do get hot and sweaty, but that can't be helped, whether I'm wearing trousers or a kilt.

I'm the same way, Tobus!