Kilt design for hot climate

[fudgeman]

from Charlotte, NC

[macneighill]

from "Karst Kountry" . . beautiful Central Kentucky, USA

[Ruanaidh]

Welcome to the rabble from West Texas.

[GDub]

Welcome from Northern California!

The Utilikilt is a good sitting kilt. The narrow apron falls naturally between the legs.

[Retro Red]

I like it airy, on the other hand, I want to sit down in a restaurant / cafe and keep my legs apart.

What 's the kilt look like ? Picures somewhere ?
Design patterns, templates.
Materials for tropical climates.

For a kilt in a hot climate, I'd strongly recommend a modern styled kilt in hemp and/or cotton material. I speak from experience having enjoyed the kilt's natural air-conditioning for the last 5 Summers in one of the hottest metropolitan climates in North America - Phoenix, Arizona.

16-oz wool makes for a great looking kilt, but when it's startin' to sizzle at over 100ºF / 37.8ºC (which it regularly does here for more than a third of the year), I find wool (13-oz or 16-oz) just too hot for comfort.

As for a kilt that'll easily cover you when you sit in a manly manner with your legs apart, I find that my Utilikilts do that effortlessly because they were designed to do that. As Pleator mentioned, you want "A narrowish apron with deep under apron pleats - as you sit down the aprons stay vertical." That's pretty much what Utilikilts have done - a narrower (than traditional) apron with multiple, narrow under-apron pleats.

Basically, I find Utilikilts to be the jeans of the kilt world - wash-and-wear, comfortable, rugged, practical & comparably more affordable than a traditional kilt. (Their entry level kilt, the Original, would fall on the lower end of the price of a pair of fashion/designer jeans.) Check-out their website for plenty of pics & info (& be sure to watch some of the mock-u-mercials).

http://www.utilikilts.com/

Anyway, that's my advice & welcome to the freedom!

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[Matty Ross]

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[Carolina Kiltman]

From the Cape Fear River Valley, NC Just get a 13oz wool, I wear it here year round, and it gets so hot in August that the Robbins use hot holders when they pull the worms out of the ground .

[SteveB]

Hello and a warm Celtic from Boston, Massachusetts. When sitting down in a kilt the ideal is to be able to sweep the pleats and tuck the aprons in one motion. It takes a little practice at first, then it becomes so natural a motion that I do it with shorts or trousers on without even thinking. I believe our one and only Hamish did a video on the subject in one of his 92 kilts. I learned how to wear the kilt some forty-five or so years ago, so it is natural for me. I did get a little razzing for sweeping my gym shorts a few times in high school, then the razzer married into a Scot family
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[Ian.MacAllan]

Welcome to the rabble from central Maryland!

As you sit, make sure there is enough slack in the aprons so that the weight of your sporran will make them settle onto the seat between your legs. Not a problem.

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[Daibhidh O'Baoighill]

from WV!