Looking for a heavyweight kilt for hiking in the winter

[OC Richard]

Sportkilt Hiking Kilt
https://sportkilt.com/product/hiking...chananancient/

Oh, I see.

I was imagining a kilt specifically designed for hiking, like a sort of Utilikilt, with roomy pockets all over.

But it's an ordinary style of kilt (flat aprons in front, pleats in back) but made very inexpensively, machine-sewn from thin cloth.

Whatever is going on with the upper back? It's all bunched up. Is it supposed to be that way?

Steve is on the right track, you might want to go with the USA Kilts polyviscose, which they do offer in a really nice muted Buchanan

https://www.usakilts.com/gallery/12-...hanan-mtd/view

It doesn't have the weight you're looking for, which as I had said will mean wool, if you want Buchanan tartan. (EDIT: see post below)

[OC Richard]

Thinking outside the box a bit, the practicality for hiking of heavy denim Utilikilts made me recall that you can have any one of several variations of Buchanan tartan made up in a wide variety of fabrics including heavy denim.

https://www.spoonflower.com/en/shop/buchanan-tartan

After having the fabric made you could send it to somebody who makes canvas utility kilts.

(Utilikilts themselves, the original inventor of utility kilts, won't do tartan.)

[Dukbrand]

Whatever is going on with the upper back? It's all bunched up. Is it supposed to be that way?

It has elastic in the waistband.

[Pleater]

Oh, I see.

Whatever is going on with the upper back? It's all bunched up. Is it supposed to be that way?

Steve is on the right track, you might want to go with the USA Kilts polyviscose, which they do offer in a really nice muted Buchanan

https://www.usakilts.com/gallery/12-...hanan-mtd/view

It doesn't have the weight you're looking for, which as I had said will mean wool, if you want Buchanan tartan. (EDIT: see post below)

The fell isn't properly designed or shaped to fit - the stripes shouldn't be on the edge of the pleats like that - it is just done for ease of (poor) construction.

I go walking through the heathland around home and quickly changed my construction method to reverse kingussie, so the pleats point backwards after having to leave the kilt in the grip of some vegetation and extract it later.

When away from home in the campervan I take a long plaid as that seems to be the best thing for bad weather. It cam be wrapped around the waist then around the shoulders or put over the head and makes a big difference diverting both wind and rain. It also stops the pleats blowing about so traps warm air and excludes cold breezes.

Anne the Pleater