New idea for underkilt

[Shuteye]

Patagonia's silkweight capilene (expedition fabric which comes in various weights) boxers are awesome. Light as silk, wear like iron, fabric patterns are cool and change regularly. They give me freedom without worrying about exposed stairways or strong winds. http://www.patagonia.com/us/search/m...rc=pkw&netid=2

When not at work, I'm kilted full time and have been for the last year ... boxered when out and about Fresno or California's central coast, commando when the weather is mellow and at home. I have been wearing these boxers for at least 5 years now and they have served my needs well. The material outlasts the high quality elastic waistband. Silk on the other hand has not served me well.

[Chainsaw02]

Way to go Mike S! I haven't owned any UW for the last 45 years and don't see the need to have any now. I clean the inside of my wool kilts with a bit of soap and water with a soft cloth, the outside the same way if neccessary. My other kilts of various fabrics go into the washing machine when needed. I wear a kilt at least four times weekly just because I want to. Every one has there own way of wearing our beloved garment and thats a good thing.

Larry Dirr

[Chirs]

I would love to know how you guys manage it. I find I have to wear something in the way of underwear or else I have 'touchdown' and, frankly, rocks and low walls and outdoor benches tend to be really cold!!

[Dale Seago]

I would love to know how you guys manage it. I find I have to wear something in the way of underwear or else I have 'touchdown' and, frankly, rocks and low walls and outdoor benches tend to be really cold!!

Sounds like you need to learn how to sweep the pleats under you as you sit down so you're sitting properly on the inside of your kilt. . .

Which is NOT to say you either should or shouldn't be wearing underwear, it's a totally separate issue.

[Kilted Cole]

I think the classic irish grandpa night shirts might make a good idea. otherwise ....this is why I own my own kilts and do not "loan" them out. if someone i know is wanting to wear a kilt but funds are tight... if they fitt into one of my old kilts that I no longer fit into...i give them the kilt after a trip to the dry cleaners for curtousy's sake.

[Mr.Charles Anthony]

Fellows: Pardon my bluntness-but this is verging on the femmine. Instead of these options, do what was first done, before BVDS were made, get a shirt long enough to reach the edge of the kilt, minus 1 inch. I also concure with the sanatary reasons, I have reached the age where, like Benj. Franklin, "I cannot trust my ar*se to a fart" and need something more than a very pricey kilt betwixt me and social disaster.
So guys, forgett the Geshia girl, the Wimbletown tart &tc and just get a long shirt!
CSA

[tpa]

Fellows:
So guys, forgett the Geshia girl, the Wimbletown tart &tc and just get a long shirt!
CSA

Aside from night shirts, unless you are happy wandering around during the day in one, where do you get shirts that reach to just above your knee?

As someone with a mild wool allergy, I have had to improvise for most of my kilt wearing life.

[Father Bill]

Many of my better quality clergy and dress shirts come well past my personals column front and back. Just quality shirts, size "tall."

[Riverkilt]

I say again - an underkilt is no more "feminine" than the kilt itself. And as the famous Spanish bullfighter said when he was teased for wearing an apron and being "feminine" when hosting a party he said, "Sir, EVERYTHING I do is masculine."

I have found I have great difficulty sitting in long tailed shirts. They don't give at the waist causing stress as they round the hips....

[Riverkilt]

YES! Without question. If you allow yourself to hike without a soft underkilt or underwear your "firehelmet" will become most painful from friction against the kilt fabric.

Take it from one who learned the hard way and had to hike back to the trailhead with the kilt tucked up out of the way until reaching the public area of the trailhead and trail and the last few hundred feet were hiked in agony....