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In article <cf4td7$7i$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk>,
Chris Malcolm <cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>The key to the original kilt concept was a multiple use outdoor
>clothing and sleeping kit. 
>
>What would be interesting would be to see a modern development of the
>same concept. With such modern inventions as zips, I'm sure some kind
>of kit of general purpose zippable bits could be devised which you
>could wear in the day and sleep in at night, with some kind of
>waterproof poncho adapting a rainproof fly, and walking poles which
>doubled as tent poles.

Zippers are comparatively heavy.

But people have tried "space aged" designs, usually one piece suits are
common.  But these get hot.  The people at Holubar tried this, the
people working on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAPS) had lots of money to
burn.  The snowmachiners are also into one piece suits as do downhill skiers.

In the TAPS Holubar case, you could take the -60F down snow pants or
suit and turn them into sleeping bags, but these weren't things you did
much physical activity in.

There is an old Ome Daiber (Snow seal name) film which had him and his
wife in sleeping bags with arms and legs.  In summer I use a down jacket
and a half bag, which has more temperature control than just a sleeping bag.

But the diversity of calorie burning is mostly beyond what normal
clothing can provide.  Right now the only real extensive clothing are
pants which zippable legs (I do have a couple of pair, but they are thin
and you would have to improvise some dead air for a forced bivvy).

Now some of the clothing worn by normadic Arabian people might have some
dual use.

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