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But thanks for the tip about ice hockey garters! – Too many kneesocks just will not stay up. Not a problem in warm weather, but winter does impose its own priorities.

When I was visiting a monastery not so long ago, one of the brothers asked for a photo to be taken of him in his habit with me in my 'mini-habit' (Elkommando hiking kilt).

Just posted a reply on this topic on the thread 'Skirts in Winter', which overlaps with this thread - they should perhaps be merged?

Contribution from Turku, Finland: I switched to kilts at midsummer 2012 and have since then put my legs into tubes only under duress: formal occasions (funerals etc, singing in concerts [dark suit or tails]). I managed perfectly comfortably through the winter last year in Manchester, UK, wearing a v...

Quick update on kilts with pockets: I've now got one on order from Freedom Kilts (Victoria, BC): black box-pleated wool, with pockets. Winter: your threats hold no more fears.

off-main-topic, but a quick comment about the iPhone away from a wifi connection in the UK: try disabling 3G / 4G and you'll probably get better coverage, as there are simply more masts etc for the longer-established, slower networks on the other hand, i was quite chuffed back in july to get a very ...

Good fellow bekilted folk, thanks for so many responses within the first 24 hours! Thanks for the reassurances that "it's OK" for non-Scots to wear a kilt: yes, I know; I also know how historically dubious the allocation of specific tartans to specific clans is (a romantic fiction dreamed ...

Greetings kiltwearers everywhere, or more specifically, on Skirtcafe. I live in Finland, though I'm originally (a long time ago) from Yorkshire (and like going back there when I can). Was given my first kilt some five years ago as a quirky Christmas present and liked it; and at Midsummer 2012, switc...