chafing

[michael steinrok]

Thank you southern breeze. An interesting possibilty ;-)

[arrogcow]

At the risk of being stoned (that's with rocks not with...) loose boxer briefs help with both. I have never chafed with BB's and they also keep the wool off my thighs so less itchiness. If you are regimental, I also heartly agree with Body Glide.

Adam

[Iolaus]

At the risk of being stoned (that's with rocks not with...) loose boxer briefs help with both. I have never chafed with BB's and they also keep the wool off my thighs so less itchiness. If you are regimental, I also heartly agree with Body Glide.

Adam

In the southern California heat, sweat has been a signifacant contributor to irritation and chafing. I've worn boxers, and I've worn boxer briefs in an attempt to alleviate the irritation (and also to preserve my modesty under lightweight fabrics). The boxers' crotch hung just low enough to allow chafing anyway, and the BB's had an inside seam that ended up being the irritant I was trying to avoid in the first place.

What I've ended up with is: when there's not going to be a lot of walking, briefs or nothing, depending on the style of kilt, but if there is going to be a lot of walking, then it's briefs and body-glide.

[James]

This raises some interesting points.

First with age the skin does get more sensitive-thus now I could not wear the British serge BD trousers of my youth: by the same token my heavier kilts of rougher material which would not have chafed in my youth-do now.

Second there has been mention of various salves and the use of powder: possibly fine with a cotton or man-made material faux kilt, which can be easily washed. Unsuitable however with a regular wool kilt: for together with the natural body oils-sweat etc-they form a rather nasty coating which impregnates the kilt: not something that is the least bit desirable. However clean one is in person, the problems of sweat and body oils are always there, but why make them much worse.

So when wearing the regular kilt and suffering as mentioned the options are to either endure, but why suffer: or look to underwear.

If taking the underwear option, the obvious answer is to wear a long tailed traditional shirt, which in fact comes down to nearly as far as the hem of the kilt. This would satisfy the most demanding purist, and is of course the root of the 'nothing is worn underneath' idea.

Moving on from that there is the option of some form of drawers: or to be entirely modern, yet true to tradition-split the shirt into a modern short tailed version and for the lower part wear something such as the J'DEZ underkilt.

This is nothing new, long before this board was created or that book by Thomson was written, the subject came up in conversation with a very traditional piper who is still in demand throughout Scotland and abroad: and he mentioned the solution as stated above, as being not uncommon.

James

[arrogcow]

In the southern California heat, sweat has been a signifacant contributor to irritation and chafing. I've worn boxers, and I've worn boxer briefs in an attempt to alleviate the irritation (and also to preserve my modesty under lightweight fabrics). The boxers' crotch hung just low enough to allow chafing anyway, and the BB's had an inside seam that ended up being the irritant I was trying to avoid in the first place.

What I've ended up with is: when there's not going to be a lot of walking, briefs or nothing, depending on the style of kilt, but if there is going to be a lot of walking, then it's briefs and body-glide.

I agree that sweat is a factor. Basically what I have discovered through testing is that I chaffe almost instantly when wearing briefs, after a few hours either regimental or in regular boxers and never (at least not yet) in boxer briefs. And I have spent 12 hour days working outside in 95 F 95% humidity weather sweating like a pig. I am good for about 6 hours with body glide.

Adam