Hiking skirt (and other clothes quick to change out of)

[jbeegoode]

Thanks, I'm on that lead next week. I'm sure to wear it out.

I notice that the kilts don't get stretched and pulled at the knees and butt as much as pants. Where pants wear out, like cuffs and knees, well, they just don't have those places to wear.They probably do last longer. They don't require as much washing, as the fit isn't so tight and suffocating and rubbing shedding skin and creating perspiration.

Should last years.
Jbee

[jbeegoode]

Que Sarong sarong:

Another article that I got published in "N: magazine.

It may be that the simple sarong may rival duct tape as a multi-use item. On the trail, I would certainly choose a sarong over duct tape. This is why and a 101 course in a list of uses...for starters.

Jbee

[nuduke]

did you try to post a link to the article, Jbee?  It wasn't on the post.
John

[jbeegoode]

Hmmm?

The link is:
https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2024/11/16/que-sarong-sarong/

Jbee

[nuduke]

Lovely article!
I must diversify uses of my sarong(s).  I guess I use it for 3 to 5 things but mainly as...a sarong!
John

[jbeegoode]

And what could be sa-wrong whd dat?

Jbee

[nuduke]

How could one possibly top that searing play on words?
..........Quite easily I suspect hahaha!
John

[jbeegoode]

This title should also include "and in to."

I just was thinking (uh oh) that we here have been experimenting and using several strategies, honing their use, for MANY years. We should have some tried and true methods and garb.

I've found that different stuff works for different situations and cohorts.

Pant legs are just cumbersome. I could have looked pretty silly early on, bouncing on one leg, perhaps falling, stuck on shoes as someone came upon me. Very ineffective and humiliating.

Sarong, kilt, and shoulder bag have worked mostly for me...I'll get into those later, when I've got a few more minutes. but how about you others in different places?
Jbee

[jbeegoode]

Sarong is my favorite. I take it even when I don't need any clothing. It is shoulder cushion and sunblock mostly. It gets me through the gantlet of trailheads, and then there are the 101 uses like my article talked about.

If I need to get through public "civilization" like gassing up or using a store on a road trip, the kilt is more respectable. Wherever I might go nude but there is risk, the kilt works, like walking around outside by the street. It slips off with the Velcro and falls to the side, if I'm sitting and pulls back on just as easily, say, for instance in my car. There is just less stress and crafty forethought necessary.

I seldom use my mailbag anymore unless I am carrying a light load. It is kinda fun being nude and street legal, keeping them guessing, "What's behind the bag, shorts?"

Jbee

[Safebare]

Of course we are of like minds. Kilts have their purpose. Visiting my niece in Astoria, NY last month, wearing my kilt here and there. I thought nothing of it, but apparently it was some kind of hit with the locals. My niece reports that her neighbors and friends miss seeing me, or hearing of me, on the urban streets of NY metro.
But I too, prefer a pareo or sarong. When heading out to a nude beach, Hippie Hollow or even a sailboat adventure, the sarong is all I require. It is my modesty wrap, towel, pillow and lounge cloth. I have even used it as a trash bag when hiking and skinny dipping the greenbelt of Austin. The priority of leaving the place better than I arrived requires I place a higher value to holding the collected litter over any modesty pretense.
Stay Safe, Stay Bare!

[jbeegoode]

Trash bag! Yet another use, and oh so noble to boot.
Jbee

[nuduke]

How do you know it's a sarong?  I have three similar garments and they are called Kikoys.  A Kikoy is a piece of colourful woven cotton that is rectangular in shape. It was possibly adapted from something Arab traders wore as they walked the coastline in East Africa. It has developed its very own character in Kenya and Tanzania and is a symbol of safari in these two countries.
But more reading has revealed they are a subset of the garment know as sarong.  Viz: "Considered a part of Swahili culture, the kikoi is mostly worn by the coastal men but now includes the Maasai people of Kenya [1] as well as men from Tanzania and Zanzibar. It is most commonly viewed a type of sarong." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikoi
John

[Greenbare Woods]

I have a couple of sarongs that I have sometimes worn at Pagan summer gatherings, but naked (skyclad) is often acceptable at Pagan gatherings too so color me naked more often.  My sarongs are not really suitable for hiking on a trail or a woodland walk.  The fabric is thin and again, naked is better. .