Warm weather wardrobe

[OC Richard]

Hawaiian shirts + highland dress = Um, No.

This brings to mind a funeral I piped at a few years ago.

The mourners gathered around the grave. There was a big cardboard box, from which people began pulling Aloha shirts and putting them on. As it happened, I had just returned from Maui and I had a new Aloha shirt in my car, so I went back to my car and put it on. When in Rome!

Anyhow for me it's checked shirts for hot weather kiltwearing. The t-shirt look and golf shirt look and military shirt look aren't for me.

[Riverkilt]

Wore a loud aloha shirt to my little brother's funeral...no kilt though. Will be at the Flagstaff games this coming weekend in a white on white aloha shirt with dress Gordon kilt...no hose, sandals. Gotta love "culture clash"

[Pleater]

I have the luxury of making my own clothes, and in the warmer months I wear cotton or cotton blend kilts, with cotton tunic or tee shirt - as cotton is cool and I react badly to man made fibres in the heat, even something sewn with polyester thread can bring up a weal.

I make simple kilts, pleating the fabric onto a waistband without sewing a fell - that allows for more airflow.

Open necks, wide sleeves and easy airflow seem to be the key factors in keeping cool.

In cold wet weather, cotton is, of course a killer as it is colder than nothing at all.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[RCAnderson]

I have been wondering the exact same thing. With me being in Hawaii I don't have any call for cold weather gear, so mine will all be warm and hot weather.

Even though I am in Hawaii, I just could not bring myself to wear an Aloha shirt with a kilt, I just couldn't do it, lol.

[Jack Daw]

Even though I am in Hawaii, I just could not bring myself to wear an Aloha shirt with a kilt, I just couldn't do it, lol.

I wore an Hawaiian style shirt with my kilt for a ceilidh when I first started wearing the kilt and didn't have any jackets. A woman told me to quit it; so, I did.

[RCAnderson]

I wore an Hawaiian style shirt with my kilt for a ceilidh when I first started wearing the kilt and didn't have any jackets. A woman told me to quit it; so, I did.

Yea, thats what I'm afraid will happen, lol.

[McMurdo]

I used to dress like this in warm weather:

The hose are from WBrewin & Sons and are thin so they are good for hotter weather, though they are a synthetic blend so there is some debate as to whether or not a thin wool set would be better. The shirt was just a short sleeve white shirt I had in my wardrobe. As for the flashes and belt I rarely wear those any longer in warmer weather. That was a few years ago, these days in the warmer weather I would most likely be seen wearing something like this:

Tattersall cotton shirt, wool hose no belt or flashes.

[Angela Kaye Bodine]

Mikilt .. I know its in middle of August now, fall is almost here..you have had alot of imput.. great advice too from everyone, Tee shirts, polo and button up short sleeve etc.. I have noticed that this August is odd cool at night/morning but warm in afternoon in New Jersey not sure how Chicago is..so a jacket or something u may need too.. Angie

[frank_a]

I hope to pick up a bespoke light wool waistcoat later this week that was made to wear alone (wool all around the back). I have 5 yards of lightweight blue worsted wool I will be delivering to my seamstress for a lightweight matching kilt jacket and waistcoat. Even where we live, I get too hot in my more formal kilt jackets, so am looking forward to some lighter stuff I can wear when it's warm. We'll see how it looks.

Frank

[James Hood]

Miserable kilt not-quite-wearing experience failure here in the pestilential swamp covered in concrete which is metro Chicago.

Was going to wear a perfect, lovely bespoke 4+ yard heavy wool kilt for an outdoor event in, "too bleeping hot and too bleeping humid" local weather and chickened out after getting kitted out and immediately achieving, "uncomfortable maximum perspiration level."

Oh, well.

Kudos to those of you who can do it in this sort of wretched clime.