{"id":14,"date":"2015-07-30T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T03:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packdude.org\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:43:52","slug":"i-love-my-el-kommando-kilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/30\/i-love-my-el-kommando-kilt\/","title":{"rendered":"I love my El Kommando Kilt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even though I\u2019m only a fraction Scottish by heritage, I have grown to love wearing kilts.  How did this come to be, you ask?  A couple years ago, while discussing exercise apparel, one of my co-workers told me about \u201cmodern\u201d kilts such as the Utilikilt.  As a (formerly) avid hiker, my curiosity was piqued.  So I checked out the Utilikilt website, and while their stuff looks pretty good, the $250-300 price tag was a deal breaker for my initial foray into kiltedness.  I mean who wants to pay that much money to try something out for the first time?  But I was not going to give up that easily, so I kept searching online.<\/p>\n

Enter the Mountain Hardwear Elkommando kilt.  At 75 USD MSRP, it\u2019s is a fraction of the cost of a Utilikilt!  Chalk it up to good timing or whatever, but I was able to score one of these on REI\u2019s online store for about $50 on sale back in 2012.  I think I even got the last one available in my size.  By the way, the Elkommando name is a tongue-in-cheek jab at \u201cgoing commando\u201d (slang for no underwear), as is the tradition when wearing a kilt.  Leave it up to the \u201cedgy\u201d crowd at Mountain Hardwear to come up with such a cool name!  And yes, it does feel really<\/em> good to go commando in a kilt.  It’s a whole other dimension <\/em>of comfort wearing one of these vs. underwear and trousers.<\/p>\n

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The Elkommando is designed for hiking, which means it differs from \u201ctraditional\u201d tartan Scottish kilts in several ways.  Indeed, I\u2019ve seen it noised about on web forums that it\u2019s not \u201ctruly\u201d a kilt, nor are any of the \u201cmodern\u201d solid color non-wool un-bifurcated male garments (UMG\u2019s).  But purists often let the perfect become the enemy of the good, as it were, so we won\u2019t pay them much heed in this article.  They can keep their heavy expensive tartan wool kilts, tall-ass kilt hose (socks), and sporran fanny packs for all I care.  Anyway, I digress.  Like I was saying, the Elkommando is a hiking kilt, which means:<\/p>\n