By way of contrast, in Canada we kilted tend to schedule events for the warmer months. Wear a kilt any other time and you discover why traditional Scottish upper garments are in the order of an inch thick. But when it gets really hot and humid here in Ontario, which believe me it does, sometimes to Dixie levels, I wear one of my non-traditional cotton kilts to stay coolest. A non-wool kilt beats shorts or anything else- well except of course for inappropriate nudity. And a wool kilt isn't that bad either, come to think of it.