Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[Bugbear]

Hi All, I've been doing most of my gardening in a kilt for the last week or so. It has been in a Buzz Kidder canvas kilt, which has become the kilt version of a pair of jean shorts in my mind. I have also exchanged kilt hose with thick, gray, knee high socks from JC Penny.

It hasn't been too difficult to get used to not bending down when picking things up in the same way as when gardening in pants. I haven't attempted crawling up under my trees in a kilt and probably won't. I've been using a foam rubber pad to protect my knees in some cases. So far most of the gardening has gone well while wearing a kilt including digging up small trees and pulling a few weeds.

* I am using canvas tool aprons in place of a sporan. I don't think I will prune my citrus and mesquite trees in a kilt though: too many thorns. I usually have an old pair of overalls for that task as well as moving concrete blocks and slabs.
Just to clear up a little confusion, the knee protection has to be used whether wearing the kilt or not: sharp things and thorns. In the summer... two-hundred degree gravel. *



I've been wearing a Buzz Kidder canvas kilt while gardening for about two weeks now. After all this use, it is not too wrinkly. The ends of some of the pleats are curled a little bit, but not bad. I can smooth out the apron pretty well with my hand and the same with the pleats. I have been folding it up as if I were going to hang it, but this whole time, I have just been laying it on a wire clothes wrack in that folded way. Just to clarify, I haven't ironed or washed the kilt, but I have brushed it down to get the cat hair and so on off of it.

I have read in a few other threads that the canvas kilts ball up in wrinkles as soon as you put them on. It really isn't that bad if you smooth over everything now and then. I do make sure all the pleats and the aprons are smoothed over as I fold it and put it away. I'm thinking, do your pleats have to look crisp and freshly ironed when you are out in the garden and so on. The shorter sewn down fell doesn't really seem to be an issue for me, and I like that the pleats are sewn down at the inside and outside edge. The army duck canvas has a tuff durable feel to it, and I like that a lot. I don't have a PV kilt to compare it to, but I'm sure a USAK casual would be fine for gardening. Basically, when I got past worrying about the kilt it became very nice to garden in it.

* I have removed the pictures and photo essay now that this thread is old. *