Would you wear a kilt in Lanzarote

[Jimmy]

at present on holiday in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and it is very warm, looking forward to celebrating St. Patrick's Day on Wednesday, its big here with loads of Irish on holiday and ex-pats.
It would have been great to be kilted on St Patrick's Day but how can you wear akilt in such warm temperatutres, we Scots are just not made for that, it has to be shorts in this weather, pity!

[Paul Henry]

It can be done!!
The two of us a few years ago in the Canaries! but it was late october

[Tobus]

I'm curious what the temperature is there right now?

We wear kilts here in Texas even when it's over 100 degrees F (38 degrees C). If we can handle it, surely a rugged Scot can handle it too!

[Chas]

I would have thought that the advantage of a kilt in hot weather was the free movement of air. Shorts just don't give you that.

Regards

Chas

[jdriskill3]

Look at it this way, the sweat will leave your body faster in a kilt than in a pair of shorts. Shorts will just collect the sweat and get wet faster.

[cessna152towser]

No reason way you shouldn't wear your kilt in Lanzarote.
I wore my Union Kilts Indi Denim most of the time I was on the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria in 2008. Lots of positive comments and no negatives and the kilt was far more comfortable than the shorts which I wore on one of the days.

[Jimmy]

No reason way you shouldn't wear your kilt in Lanzarote.
I wore my Union Kilts Indi Denim most of the time I was on the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria in 2008. Lots of positive comments and no negatives and the kilt was far more comfortable than the shorts which I wore on one of the days.

At times I am totally confident in wearing my kilt in various places throughout the world but i feel that the kilt would be out of place here in Puerto del Carmen, perhaps if I had another kilt wearer I might be braver

[Red Stag]

I started wearing a tan Utilikilt to work last summer when we were having problems with the air conditioning. The kilt generates its own breeze when one walks.

I figured if the women could wear unbifurcated garment then so could I! I ordered one and just started wearing it, I didn't ask for permission from management, the heck with 'em. All of my coworkers were waiting for management to say something to me. The first day that I wore it to work some higher ups were there. One of the guys in my department over heard our co-manager asking the visiting marketing team if I was allowed to wear it and was told that there was nothing that they could do about it. I think that they thought it was a woman's dress. My co-worker was mad that they were going to try and stop me from wearing it so he ordered his own Utilikilt. He hasn't had the guts to wear it yet, he's been using the cold weather as an excuse. Ironically, even though he hasn't even tried it on yet, he has ordered a second Utilikilt, in camoflage.

[O'Callaghan]

A Sport Kilt would be suitable weight for high temperatures, and if you have the optional pockets then there's no need for a sporran. As for the other issue, find an Irish pub (they do exist in Spain, although I don't know if there's one in Lanzarote) and hang out there on St. Patrick's Day, so you won't feel out of place (and after a few drinks you won't care anyway).

[Jimmy]

Amazingly I did see a kiltie the other night in Puerto del Carmen. Lanzarote, I was sitting in a restaurant on the promenade when he walked by with a group of friends, he was a quite a tall older guy with grey hair and a beard, his kilt was not traditional tartan and he was quite casually dressed with socks at his ankles, i think that they may have been scandinavian from their accent. Unfortunately I was unable to talk to this gent but I wonder if he is a member of the forum