Your perfect summer kilt outfit?

[Iain Ruaidh]

I tend to wear my kilts with a button-up shirt, usually short sleeved, and an optional wool sweater. The sweater is always and only wool - I can't be doing with fake sweaters as they aren't comfortable.
Hose vary from thick kilt hose in winter, through knee high socks, both ribbed and flat knit, to minimal socks when it's warm.

I like my 4yd 13oz wool kilts for their sheer style and colours, but I wear them sparingly.

I have several 4/5yd polyviscose kilts that look great.

And I have a couple of Sportkilt Hiking Kilts with velcro fastening, and which are made of some printed microfibre material. They are very lightweight, and drip dry perfectly after you get them wet: go swimming, rinse in the shower, hang on the washing line and bingo, it's back to perfect. I don't have the optional straps or pockets on them. I think that would look a little mad on something so obviously plasticky.

It all depends on the weather, which can be any season on any day here in England.

[Pleater]

The week long folk festival I attended was blisteringly hot this year and I did not see one woollen kilt - the Kernow lads and some lasses were there in their Cornish black cotton kilts, some with a white cross, variously on the apron or across the pleats, lightweight hose or none at all, white 'pirate' shirt or black tee shirt and a broad brimmed hat.

I took several kilts but wore just one, the lightest, and took a shower wearing it to freshen it up mid way through. I was going to hang it up to dry but by the time I got back to the camper, it was barely damp, so did not bother.

Anne the Pleater

[OC Richard]

It was quite warm, verging on hot, yesterday when I left the West side of Scotland clad in the kilt, hose, etc. and wearing a tattersall patterned shirt with the sleeves rolled up. When I arrived in Inverness (East side of Scotland), some 80 miles distant, the haar (cold sea fog) had moved in and a cold Easterly breeze was blowing.

Here on our West Coast we get the first part but not the second part.

In short, we're haarless.