Quote Originally Posted by Chef View Post
The kilt is a garment but it is not practical for everything.
Agreed, but the exceptions are relatively few.

Quote Originally Posted by Chef View Post
There is no practical reason to wear a kilt to garden over jeans.
Disagree. With the constant stooping, kneeling, stretching, etc., the kilt gives immeasurable freedom of movement as opposed to jeans. As mentioned earlier, either knee pads or the kneeling pad are needed for ground work.

{The Tale of Two Trees} Aerial work requires preplanning, however. Climbing and pruning a fruitless mulberry tree presented no problems with its relatively small branches. On the other hand, the enormous, old elm tree is going to require a climbing harness and something to protect the valuables when straddling and scooching along the very rough limbs.

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Given that the kilt you are wearing would by a half-dozen pairs of jeans I don't see the point other than to say you did it.
From Buzz Kidder's website:
Buzz Kidder's Celtic Shoppe offers ... Casual Canvas Kilts from $112 with FREE SHIPPING
Other than the fact that someone else sewed the kilt (making it cost a bit more), canvas kilts are low-cost, low-maintenance, and low-worry for gardening and other greasy, grimy, gopher-hunting activities. My homemade canvas kilts are hard-wearing and see plenty of dirty labor before being tossed into the washing machine.

O.K.! - one doesn't normally touch up their blue denims with a steam iron before the next go-round - but neither do jeans have the élan a kilt has, IMHO.

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