Posted on 06/22/2017 11:36:59 AM PDT by drewh
Just showing their heritage. Irish wore kilts too—Must be a tartan.
Kilts work. But mine are wool, not really summer-friendly.
Except in England they likely have no air conditioning. Summer is just a passing fancy there. :-)
My proctologist said he'd never had to extract a caber before...
What! You didn’t expect me to click on that link and read the article, did you????
Geez, what has FR come to????
There’s a company called Utilikilt, that makes kilts for construction workers. And while they’re getting close, with kilts that look much like cargo shorts, they are based in the northwest, so their very hot weather and desert lines are limited.
“There’s a company called Utilikilt, that makes kilts for construction workers.”
It gets very hot-n-humid here in Maryland. I bought my farmer husband a Utilikilt to wear during the worst days. He has yet to wear it doing barn chores, but dang oh dang, does he look good in that thing!
There, ladies and gentlemen, is a MAN. What a lovely creature. If you men had any idea at all how kilts make women melt, you’d all wear them.
My wife and I wore our McKenzie Clan tartans to the National Square Dance Festival ...
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agreed
I saw a photo of the kids elsewhere, and they were wearing kilts...
Their parents need to be horse whipped.
Before AC we lived at the edge of the mountains and we had a huge window fan in the dining room pulling air out of the house and the windows open in the bedrooms with a floor fan pulling air into the house from the bedroom nearest to the mountains. It was hot and sticky but bearable if you slept in your underwear and used no covers. We survived just fine.
My Dad’s company ran multiple coolers and there was one big walk in. Sometimes in the summer me and my brothers would go to his work on our bikes and grab a coke and just go stand in the big walk in to cool down. Finally in the midst of a blistering hot summer he got a good deal on an AC unit and installed a massive AC unit over the front entrance of his business and we were introduced to air conditioning.
After that half summer of having it at his business he waited until the fall and got a better deal and he bought a big window unit for our living room and the next summer we ran it from about 11:00am to up into the morning with a floor fan pulling the cool air down the hallway into the bedrooms. Needless to say on many a hot July night me and my brothers would grab a sheet and pillow and camp out in the living room to sleep.
My wife grew up with central AC and can’t imagine living without it. In my current house a couple of summers ago it was hot and the AC went out on a Friday night. Well the second floor was shall we say quite toasty. What are we going to do she asked? I said open the windows, set the desk fan we use for noise in the window of the bedroom and open the bathroom window and we will get a breeze moving across the bed. No covers and no pajamas, you will live. The kids had ceiling fans in their rooms they turned on and opened the windows. She survived, lol!
90 degrees in England is very warm. The boys are not allowed to wear shorts, while the girls are allowed to wear skirts - so there is an unequal option for wearing cooler clothing.
I see this as more of a protest against the lopsided dress code than a social justice phenomenon.
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