Quote Originally Posted by 646guy
Geez.....these are kilts! Not disposal KLeenex Andrew! How did the water affect the kilt after swimming?
It was a poly-viscose Bear kilt. It dried within two hours of me wearing it after getting out of the water, pleats intact. Same as after I jumped off the rope swing. Same as when I wore it backpacking over thirty miles through a snowstorm. Same as when I wore it backpacking through seven straight days of torrential rain. Same as when I forded three waist-deep rivers a day for a week in it.

I treat my kilts like clothes. They're tough garments, and I'm tough on them. They keep coming back for more. I was always inspired by Bear's slogan: "Kilts are clothing, not costumes!" Why should I treat them like porcelain kittens? They were designed to be worn in the rough Highlands: slept in, rained on, building houses in, tending farms in.... My goal is to put 8,000 backpacking miles on one of my Bear kilts, and I have no doubt it will pull through - I can't think of many other articles of clothing that would take such abuse!

Andrew.