Quote Originally Posted by Al G. Sporrano View Post
I was out and about most of Sunday in my heavy Irish National wool kilt. The temps on Sunday was in the -28C range, and I wasn't the slightest bit cold. Even shovelled the driveway off when I got back home.

If you get a good quality 8-yard wool kilt, cold temps won't be an issue. You'll be far warmer in your kilt than if you'd been wearing jeans.
Hm well that's good to hear. Today I went to work in jeans w/ thermal undies & standard drawars, and a long sleeved t-shirt under a sweater .. and that was just for the walk .. I work inside .. ;)

For those who are wondering .. -30C is what we call RFC .. I'm sure you can flesh out the acronym. It's almost cold enough to get frostbite on your teeth. In total honesty, I think bare flesh freezes in about 2.5 minutes at that temp. There wasn't much wind today so it was fine but yesterday the windchill brought the temp to something like -45. Not pretty.

I'm in Calgary, which is in western Canada just on the east side of the rocky mountain range.