For what it's worth - one of the last surviving Gaelic speakers from the part of the Highlands I come from wore a kilt every day (he died about 50-60 years ago), but he was most famous locally for wearing an Inverness Cape. I asked a very old lady who used to have tea with him "Why did he wear an Inverness Cape?" and she said "He was just very well dressed". He also wore a bonnet, bow tie and a huge horsehair or goat hair sporran.
Hey, those pipers with Inverness capes are from Simon Fraser University! That's where I went to school. One of my fondest memories is the pipe band playing down the stairs into Convocation Hall at my graduation ceremony.
During the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War, it was reported that the Highland regiments in their kilts faired better than the troops wearing pants in the Canadian winter (leadership had proposed changing their uniforms to trousers when the regiments first arrived in Canada, but it was successfully argued to let them keep their kilts). Here's a quote that I found in Frank Adam's "The Clans, Septs, and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands" that highlights this: "Thanks to our. generous Chief, we were allowed to wear the garb of our fathers, and in the course of six winters showed the doctors that they did not understand our constitutions, for in the coldest winters our men were more healthy than those regiments who wore breeches and warm clothing." There are some other interesting accounts in the chapter on Highland garb of the hardiness and constitution of Highlanders in their kilts, including accounts of where the Highland regiments struggled greatly when forced to wear trousers, and that Highland regiments were often cleaner and in better health than troops in pants, etc.
My go to for the cold is a good Robt. Mackie balmoral, Barbour Bedale jacket with quilted vest and a Fair Isle sweater. Compression shorts under the kilt when it's extra cold and House of Cheviot shooting socks.
Inverness capes. A subject worth its own show. Black cotton Inverness Capes are available, thicker than plastic (I dislike the plastic variety), not as heavy as tweed, but waterproof and highly effective in keeping the heaviest of rain off. The rain literally rolls off so your clothes remain dry, and these capes keep their shape. Store them on a hanger. Highly recommended for your kilt wardrobe, and a great look. I'd also invest in a tweed Inverness Cape for those rare super-cold days, or if you live in the Arctic or Canada!
When I served in a highland regiment, we were issued a greatcoat sometimes referred to as the British Warm. It was wool and very comfortable. Unfortunately with the kilt it was slightly odd. As a result we generally wore a regimental doublet and a wool undershirt. As a civilian, I have a lodencloth coat in olive green. It is great, but the length and the kilt are not quite right. I think that your advice about wearing a peacoat is good.
I'm happy to roll my pullover under so that the sporran remains free, but I do wear a belt with my pullover. Once I'm indoors and it's hotter than outside, I'll take the pullover off. As to a winter coat - not a jacket - I wear an ankle length Russian military great coat which, while being surprisingly heavy, is waterproof and very warm.
One trick that i learned a couple years ago that works is to wear womens sweaters and jackets that look identical to mens because they are shorter in length.
Got a great kilt for my trip up to Pittsburgh to see my sister. I’m Texan and I can handle negatives when it’s dry like the Midwest but wet AND cold?? Aint never experienced nothin like that until I went to PA. Crazy stuff.
The shorter Filson tin jackets (assuming you can afford it!) would look fantastic. Y'all need to either learn to knit, or marry a knitter. Not that hard a skill, and then you can wear custom sweaters! Gansey style would be an excellent choice. I would also love to see a traditional Fair Isle with the tartan - yes, a bit much for pattern, but it would be gorgeous!
59-50 i just wear a hoodie usually. below that really depends. i can get away with the hoodie (american giant heavyweight hoodie) down to 40 with a long-sleeve flannel and balaclava underneath, but 45-30 i usually wear my peacoat. 45 with just a t-shirt (insulated peacoat) or long-sleeve shirt with my non-insulated peacoat. below 30 any style goes out the window; the thermal tights and north face jacket come out with whatever layers are required. i typically wear running shoes as jogging becomes necessary to stay warm.
What about a Barbour jacket? I know they're generally a little longer than waist length but I feel like they should get a "pass" along with the pea coat.
Deep snow, aye. This very thing is to be found in song: 🎶 I was trekking wi' my chromach Up frae Gretna Green tae Skye But my journey has an element of farce For the calendar has stated It's the middle of July But here I am wi' snow up tae me arse. 🎶 "Leo McGuire's Song" to that parody bait tune "Road To The Isles." So, wossat cromach...? Well, a chromach or a crommack Is a sort of stick or crook Much resembling a kind of country cane The top end where you put your hand May be bent into a crook You may catch yourself a sheep all by your lane. That tune is just too easy...
I have short merino underwear I can wear underneath a kilt to prevent a frozen bum, but I'll still get frozen knees ... so my kilt (not a traditional but utility kilt) is kept with my summer wear.
Tailor shop. Surplus Ikes have long dried up. Tailor is spendy, but you've got your choice of fabric. Harris tweed maybe? A Levi jacket has the right length.
Of the wall question. Where i live lots of people carry firearms. Any suggestions for how to carry. Personally i carry in a cross draw position. Thoughts, and please dont say leave one's protection at home.
The issue in a kilt is that the belt/waistline is higher than in your jeans and that makes it difficult to use the same carry techniques you would otherwise use. My solution was to get a casual kilt designed to wear in the "jeans" position and then use the same belt and holster. In a traditional kilt it's still a quandary. My usual technique is to carry a small, flat pistol in my sporran. This does require a larger sporran than most and I resorted to making my own. I also have leather jackets with a built-in internal pistol pocket and I use that as well. It does mean that if you take off the jacket it's slower to access the pistol. A shoulder holster could work if you're going to wear a jacket but I personally don't like them.
A good thigh rig. Only hazard with them is, if "the moment" ever arrives, you'll likely blind the perp as well as any bystanders if you have to make a fast draw... Just sayin.
4:45 have you ever been to Inverness? Or the North of Britain? If it's raining hard enough to wear an Inverness Cape I doubt you are going to get warm... Though I would love wool over plastic any day if finances allow.
No frikkin WAY am I gonna wear a kilt in Northern NH in the dead of winter... HELL NO!! -22F with a 45mph wind bringing it to -40F?!!! Hell NO!!!! JUST NO!!!
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For what it's worth - one of the last surviving Gaelic speakers from the part of the Highlands I come from wore a kilt every day (he died about 50-60 years ago), but he was most famous locally for wearing an Inverness Cape. I asked a very old lady who used to have tea with him "Why did he wear an Inverness Cape?" and she said "He was just very well dressed". He also wore a bonnet, bow tie and a huge horsehair or goat hair sporran.
Thanks to this video I wore my kilt with my peacoat to our Santa Claus Parade tonight and I got lots of compliments (including from a Scot!)
Hey, those pipers with Inverness capes are from Simon Fraser University! That's where I went to school. One of my fondest memories is the pipe band playing down the stairs into Convocation Hall at my graduation ceremony.
During the Seven Years' War/French and Indian War, it was reported that the Highland regiments in their kilts faired better than the troops wearing pants in the Canadian winter (leadership had proposed changing their uniforms to trousers when the regiments first arrived in Canada, but it was successfully argued to let them keep their kilts). Here's a quote that I found in Frank Adam's "The Clans, Septs, and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands" that highlights this:
"Thanks to our. generous Chief, we were allowed to
wear the garb of our fathers, and in the course of six winters showed the
doctors that they did not understand our constitutions, for in the coldest
winters our men were more healthy than those regiments who wore
breeches and warm clothing."
There are some other interesting accounts in the chapter on Highland garb of the hardiness and constitution of Highlanders in their kilts, including accounts of where the Highland regiments struggled greatly when forced to wear trousers, and that Highland regiments were often cleaner and in better health than troops in pants, etc.
The Australian waxed stockman's coat is ideal.
I am from Scotland, many people i see around the Partick area of Glasgow ware Arran jumpers or tweed with kilts
My go to for the cold is a good Robt. Mackie balmoral, Barbour Bedale jacket with quilted vest and a Fair Isle sweater. Compression shorts under the kilt when it's extra cold and House of Cheviot shooting socks.
Walker slater in Edinburgh has some very nice Navy/Sherlock Holmes esque/Inverness cape type coats that look good with a kilt.
Inverness capes. A subject worth its own show. Black cotton Inverness Capes are available, thicker than plastic (I dislike the plastic variety), not as heavy as tweed, but waterproof and highly effective in keeping the heaviest of rain off. The rain literally rolls off so your clothes remain dry, and these capes keep their shape. Store them on a hanger.
Highly recommended for your kilt wardrobe, and a great look. I'd also invest in a tweed Inverness Cape for those rare super-cold days, or if you live in the Arctic or Canada!
I once saw a guy in Italy skiing in a kilt! Fine until you fall and the snow shoots up inside.
I really like the sweaters. I think I'm going to invest in a couple!
A shorter waxed cloth Barbour jacket goes well with a weathered kilt and boots with a sweater.
When I served in a highland regiment, we were issued a greatcoat sometimes referred to as the British Warm. It was wool and very comfortable. Unfortunately with the kilt it was slightly odd. As a result we generally wore a regimental doublet and a wool undershirt.
As a civilian, I have a lodencloth coat in olive green. It is great, but the length and the kilt are not quite right. I think that your advice about wearing a peacoat is good.
I just LOVE you guys!!! Thanks for the inspiration!!
I'm happy to roll my pullover under so that the sporran remains free, but I do wear a belt with my pullover. Once I'm indoors and it's hotter than outside, I'll take the pullover off. As to a winter coat - not a jacket - I wear an ankle length Russian military great coat which, while being surprisingly heavy, is waterproof and very warm.
I have one of those coats as well....walking around in it in ~30ºF temps, I was sweating
One trick that i learned a couple years ago that works is to wear womens sweaters and jackets that look identical to mens because they are shorter in length.
I have a couple of military style sweaters. Olive green and navy blue. If it's really cold I'll wear my carhardt jacket.
Guernsey fisherman or Aran jumpers look good with the kilt.
Got a great kilt for my trip up to Pittsburgh to see my sister. I’m Texan and I can handle negatives when it’s dry like the Midwest but wet AND cold?? Aint never experienced nothin like that until I went to PA. Crazy stuff.
The shorter Filson tin jackets (assuming you can afford it!) would look fantastic. Y'all need to either learn to knit, or marry a knitter. Not that hard a skill, and then you can wear custom sweaters! Gansey style would be an excellent choice. I would also love to see a traditional Fair Isle with the tartan - yes, a bit much for pattern, but it would be gorgeous!
I wonder if you could to a video about carrying a holster, belt knife or multitool? Oh and I usually wear a hoodie or carhartt jacket with my kilt
Hey the Great Coat that the Scottish Regiments wear works as well.
59-50 i just wear a hoodie usually. below that really depends. i can get away with the hoodie (american giant heavyweight hoodie) down to 40 with a long-sleeve flannel and balaclava underneath, but 45-30 i usually wear my peacoat. 45 with just a t-shirt (insulated peacoat) or long-sleeve shirt with my non-insulated peacoat.
below 30 any style goes out the window; the thermal tights and north face jacket come out with whatever layers are required. i typically wear running shoes as jogging becomes necessary to stay warm.
I use a USAF MA-36 flight jacket for casual wear.
Classic Biker jacket would work as well.
What about a capote? I'd love to get a tartan capote.
What about a Barbour jacket? I know they're generally a little longer than waist length but I feel like they should get a "pass" along with the pea coat.
So tucking in sweaters for us Voluptuous Gentlemen.
Dr. Who scarf!!😊
Any Hogwarts scarf!
What shirt are you wearing? I really like the look of it. Looks slightly like a highland but without the grommets and string.
would it be ok to wear thermal under-layer(tights basically) when working in the snow? boots only get so tall and the snow gets pretty deep here
Deep snow, aye.
This very thing is to be found in song:
🎶 I was trekking wi' my chromach
Up frae Gretna Green tae Skye
But my journey has an element of farce
For the calendar has stated
It's the middle of July
But here I am wi' snow up tae me arse. 🎶
"Leo McGuire's Song" to that parody bait tune "Road To The Isles."
So, wossat cromach...?
Well, a chromach or a crommack
Is a sort of stick or crook
Much resembling a kind of country cane
The top end where you put your hand
May be bent into a crook
You may catch yourself a sheep all by your lane.
That tune is just too easy...
Carhartt still listed as an American "based" Family owned company.
I’m extremely thin and I almost always tuck my sweaters. It makes me not so thin lol
I have short merino underwear I can wear underneath a kilt to prevent a frozen bum, but I'll still get frozen knees ... so my kilt (not a traditional but utility kilt) is kept with my summer wear.
What's about a dufflecoat, is it acceptable to wear one with a kilt? I think it's a classic but it's not short...
The Historical Emporium carries much more affordable Inverness capes for those who are interested.
Anyone know where to get an Ike jacket? Can’t find any except limited sizes on Etsy pages.
Tailor shop. Surplus Ikes have long dried up. Tailor is spendy, but you've got your choice of fabric. Harris tweed maybe?
A Levi jacket has the right length.
Ankle long coats?
If you guys didn't know you are amazing
Canada wear longjohns!
Of the wall question. Where i live lots of people carry firearms. Any suggestions for how to carry. Personally i carry in a cross draw position. Thoughts, and please dont say leave one's protection at home.
The issue in a kilt is that the belt/waistline is higher than in your jeans and that makes it difficult to use the same carry techniques you would otherwise use. My solution was to get a casual kilt designed to wear in the "jeans" position and then use the same belt and holster. In a traditional kilt it's still a quandary. My usual technique is to carry a small, flat pistol in my sporran. This does require a larger sporran than most and I resorted to making my own. I also have leather jackets with a built-in internal pistol pocket and I use that as well. It does mean that if you take off the jacket it's slower to access the pistol. A shoulder holster could work if you're going to wear a jacket but I personally don't like them.
A good thigh rig. Only hazard with them is, if "the moment" ever arrives, you'll likely blind the perp as well as any bystanders if you have to make a fast draw... Just sayin.
CCW vest. Some have figured out that belt-carry CCW can indeed be improved upon.
A belly band under a sweater or sweat shirt in the cooler months is an option also.
@@timothycampbell495That works to your advantage.
Swinging you say......................................Does your wife know about this? Oh you got me laughing.
...The sort of thing that tempts your wife to squeeze your butt. "...a' in perrrfect workin' order."
Oilskins?
4:45 have you ever been to Inverness? Or the North of Britain? If it's raining hard enough to wear an Inverness Cape I doubt you are going to get warm...
Though I would love wool over plastic any day if finances allow.
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No frikkin WAY am I gonna wear a kilt in Northern NH in the dead of winter... HELL NO!! -22F with a 45mph wind bringing it to -40F?!!! Hell NO!!!! JUST NO!!!
Better for 30-40 and damp/wet and brushy. Said to dry out faster and give more ease than clingy damp trousers.