13 oz vs 16 oz

[Barb T]

Most of your heat will come from what is enclosing your waist. The less there, the better off you will be.

If you're wearing a kilt belt, it doesn't much matter whether it's 16 or 13 oz tartan at the waist - the kilt belt doesn't breathe. My band kilt is 16 oz, and we wear our kilts in parades and at competitions all summer, and I find that it's the _kilt hose_, not the kilt, that is the thing that's uncomfortable in hot, humid weather.

Barb

[JRB]

I heartily agree about the hose being the heat culprit. I have a 16oz. tank and have found it fine to wear in hot weather provided I wear it with a T-shirt and shoes with scrunched down socks. I tried to wear my hose several weeks ago to a highland games and only lasted an hour or so before I switched to short socks pushed down. From now on it's "red shanks" for me in the summer months (unless I'm going somewhere dressy).

[Abax]

I'm trying to decide between a 13 oz and a 16 oz

I have a 4-yard box pleated kilt in 16 ounce wool from Matt Newsome. It's quite comfortable in warm temperatures up here (Anchorage, 75° - 80° F) during the summer. It sure garnered a lot of admiring looks at the Highland games last weekend.

Abax