Kilt in cold weather

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While I can't comment on kilt wearing in the cold, I can say with certainty that the Arctic weather we are receiving in Northern BC at the moment would provide you with a good case of frostbite rather quickly. -35 C is not a lot of fun.

We get the same temperatures in January in Ural.
-30C > -35C is no big deal, as the humidity drops to practically zero.
It's really dry cold.
We are expecting the polar vortex to start to incline over from the northern USA into northern Finland and Russia in the next 2 weeks, with maybe a SSW episode to throw the spanner in the works properly.

What is not funny, is when it occasionally drops to below -40C, then people only go out as short a time as possible. (seen -48C).

My experience says you won't get frostbite at -35C temperatures.
NO WAY, at least not in the KILT exposed areas or knees, although they will feel pretty cold.
The thing which invariably feels coldest is the NOSE, face, and even the ears under a woolly hat, so it's a scarf job over the nose and lips.

Now if there's any form of wind, that's a different matter, and of course, if you are close to the sea.

It only takes a little bit of moisture, say in the sea breeze from the north, off St Petersburg and -10C feels absolutely poisonous.
I don't know many colder places in January, and everyone in SPB says so.

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Done it in a kilt, but, walking over the river (Narva) can be an ordeal at -20C, because the wind whips across from the bay, high over the river, and attacks exposed wrists at the end of warm gloves.
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It works its way into the tiniest crannies, whether you are in jeans or anything else for that matter, and you struggle to get warm by hugging the heater in a bus or tram.
The only solution then is ski trousers and (if you can afford it) a full fur coat.