how many guys own no pants?

[Scott Gilmore]

What sort of weather is not kilt friendly?

When it's 90° F with 100% humidity here is San Diego like it will be today, which is not usual for this part of the world.

Too bad, I'd planned on going kilted to watch the Brazil-France game downtown to the Samba Grill. I'm not up for the three-mile walk in the hottest part of the day in a wool kilt and hose in this kind of weather though.

Regards,
Scott Gilmore

[bubba]

When it's 90° F with 100% humidity here is San Diego like it will be today, which is not usual for this part of the world.

Too bad, I'd planned on going kilted to watch the Brazil-France game downtown to the Samba Grill. I'm not up for the three-mile walk in the hottest part of the day in a wool kilt and hose in this kind of weather though.

Regards,
Scott Gilmore

Wear nonwool hose scrunched down. As for the kilt, while in motion you'll be better ventilated than you would be in trousers or shorts.

[Raphael]

When it's 90° F with 100% humidity here is San Diego like it will be today, which is not usual for this part of the world.

Too bad, I'd planned on going kilted to watch the Brazil-France game downtown to the Samba Grill. I'm not up for the three-mile walk in the hottest part of the day in a wool kilt and hose in this kind of weather though.

Regards,
Scott Gilmore

What about Dress Sandals with the Kilt?

[Scott Gilmore]

Wear nonwool hose scrunched down. As for the kilt, while in motion you'll be better ventilated than you would be in trousers or shorts.

Thanks, but I prefer to wear my kilts a certain way, and unfortunately it just isn't conducive to warm weather. Kilts are cool weather garments after all - that's where they originated. Besides, after walking downtown, we watched the game in a rather crowded place with, it seemed, every Brazilian in the western United States. It was great fun (too bad they lost), but I would have broiled in a kilt - and the three mile walk back uphill in the afternoon heat after all that indulging wouldn't have been pleasant. (Anyone here ever have a caipirinha ... or three ... on top of feijoada?)

The point of all this - and getting back on topic - is that as much as I would like to dream of wearing kilts anytime, anywhere, the truth is that it is no more realistic to do so here in southern California than it might be to wear lederhosen. I've found that a kilt is not cooler than a light pair of shorts once moving.

Bear in mind that San Diego county is the single most ecologically diverse county in the lower forty eight states. If you're right along the coast, it might be cloudy and quite cool. But travel five miles inland and the temperature is easily five to ten degrees warmer. Travel another ten miles inland, and the temperature goes up another ten degrees. So when it's be 65°~70° F in Ocean Beach, it's 80° F in Spring Valley and 90° F in Santee. If you keep going over 7,000 foot mountains, you can drop down into the scorching, Anza-Borrego desert, where, on that same day, it'll be 115° F in the shade. And you'll have not set foot outside this county.

Thanks, but don't worry, I'll wear a kilt every chance I get when I feel comfortable doing so.

Regards,
Scott Gilmore

[Blu (Ontario)]

... One ocassion I thought of would be a funeral. Of course you would wear black, but I can see people thinking you were not treating the ceremony with "seriousness" and using it as another excuse to wear your kilt.....which is totally wrong thinking...

What on earth would give you that impression.? I've been to several funerals - most recently just a few weeks ago - and wore a kilt, argyle jacket, dark shirt and tie, matching flashes, black broghes and sporran. The family thanked me for showing such respect that I would do that. In such circumstances, I wear my kilt as seriously as any suit. A funeral is no joke and neither is the kilt.

[kennlar]

hmmm. Only 98 with 22% humidity in Escondido...just to the northeast.

Wore my camo utilikilt to Carlsbad for dog training...no, that's not a euphymism, I have a dog. Dog and I hit R. O'Sullivans for a couple pints and lunch afterward.

Definitely not a day for the long hose...don't know about the wool kilt...don't have one of those yet...next on my list.

[pbpersson]

What on earth would give you that impression.?

Keep in mind I am a Utilikilt sort of guy. Never have owned a tartan kilt, probably never will own a tartan kilt.

On my budget the fanciest I will ever get will be a UK Mocker.

But yes...of course.....if you own a kilt that costs hundreds of dollars it will be quite fancy for any sort of serious occassion.

I should have been more specific with my thoughts.

When I want to get dressed up.....REALLY dressed up....I wear the suit I was married in 12 years ago.

[GlassMan]

I no longer own a single pair of pants (with the exception of a pair of tuxedo pants that don't fit but that I keep in my closet because I can't bear to throw out a $2000 tuxedo).

[cessna152towser]

7 kilts, 7 trousers (of which two form the bottom half of business suits), and 14 x knee length shorts.

[GMan]

Confession time, I still have a pair of blue jeans I wear for roof work and cleaning out the rain gutters. I find that I would not like to get a Kilt dirty (even if they do wash) or worse ruined.