kilts in the rain.

[Mel1721L]

Here's what pipe bands use -- http://www.hendersongroupltd.com/Car...&idCategory=12

Thanks for that, it's on my wish list now, although I've got one one something like this: http://www.australiantreasures.com/e...ider-coat.html

[creagdhubh]

Anything Barbour. Wellies too.

[Father Bill]

Thanks for that, it's on my wish list now, although I've got one one something like this: http://www.australiantreasures.com/e...ider-coat.html

Absolutely legitimate. Less traditional, but similar to what many Scots often wear today.

[Mel1721L]

Absolutely ligitimate. Less traditional, but similar to what many Scots often wear today.

I'll stick with my stockmans coat then. My wife is confident she can find it where I can't.

[Tarheel]

I've heard that coat called a "slicker" when I dealt with horses many years ago. I used to have one and it was great. Beware that it may stain the kilt if treated with a waterproofing compound that has a stain/dye infused. If yours has a lining no problem though.

[Mel1721L]

Mine is lined, if I can ever find it, my wife put it away for the summer and she's working in the UK at the moment and doesn't remember where she put it. Considering the size of the coat and the size of our apartment, I can't believe I can't find it!

[Tarheel]

When, and/or if, you find it, (thinking of my own home and the many places to put things aside for safe keeping) answer me this riddle. Do the leg straps on the inside of your coat fit below the kilt hem? Assuming your coat has those inner straps. I'll rely on the Inverness cape owners to answer that same question in retrospect.

[Mel1721L]

When, and/or if, you find it, (thinking of my own home and the many places to put things aside for safe keeping) answer me this riddle. Do the leg straps on the inside of your coat fit below the kilt hem? Assuming your coat has those inner straps. I'll rely on the Inverness cape owners to answer that same question in retrospect.

Well I've never worn it with a kilt, so I don't know, I never use them anyway. I usually wear it with a battered brown slouch hat with faded infantry cords and badged as C Coy 46th Virginia Infantry.

[Father Bill]

The cape doesn't have those straps; they're designed for riding horseback and the cape doesn't do that. If you do have the straps... just leave them tucked into the coat and don't try to put them around your legs since you're not riding anyway.

[MacLowlife]

I have a Barbour Burghley, I think it is, which does have those straps. They are lower on the leg, probably about mid calf, and could be hooked below the kilt. My Inverness cape is wool fabric and not waterproof, so I would end up with TWO layers of sodden wool, if I wore it in a hard rain. The Burghley and various pommel slickers are nice, but men in trousers manage well enough exposing their legs below the knee to the risk of rain, so kilted gents can probably do the same.
Part of the problem is how your legs look sticking out of a long coat- as if you had left the house with only your socks on. Notice most Inverness Cape illustrations show the cape open to show the kilt underneath.

I vote mid-calf waterproof of your choice and a good umbrella.

OOOOPS, I meant Mid-THIGH. I vote thigh, not Calf