Kilt for camping... what to get next.

[Alan H]

Might I suggest that there's a big difference between camping 40 feet from your SUV, and say, backpacking in 20 miles from the trailhead.

If I was car-camping, then the main thing would be the fire issue. NO to Stillwaters acrylic. Aside from that, cotton (will wrinkle like there's no tomorrow), cotton/poly, polyester-viscose, wool and wool-polyester blends are all fine.

If I had a pack on that had a waistband that took most of the load, and the kilt was underneath that, then NO to traditional buckle closure. Buttons....OK, but velcro is great.

How to get the perfect kilt...non flammable, the length you want, velcro closure if you want it, etc?

Make it.

If you can't make it, and it's GOT to be tartan, then I would ask Rocky for a USA Kilts casual model and beg him for a wider under-apron. You can pick from 60+ tartans. It's light. It's polyester-viscose, so it doesn't ignite and melt down when exposed to an open flame. You can walk into the lake and swim in it to wash off the sweat...hang it from a tree and two hours later it's dry and becasue the pleats are sewn down, it looks reasonable.. IT SHEDS TREE SAP. (It takes a couple of washings, but it really does. I know because I have one, and it did.) It closes with velcro. I wear a really light nylon web-belt with a velcro closure, to help keep it up. There's nothing under there to rub you raw from the waistband of your pack. The only downside is that at mine, at least, the under-apron was pretty narrow and I wish it were wider, for modesty's sake.

Try getting tree sap out of a wool kilt. Ha!