Survivor Utilikilt
The Survivor Utilikilt is a manly kilt combining the best features of kilts and tactical pants with modular detachable storage pockets.
How To Buy It
$290 from the Utilikilt Store (Tell them you got it from EmpowerThyself.com and they'll donate 12.5% to Fund Empowerment)
Manufacturer Description
If you fend off crocodiles for a living, spend most of your time trapped on desert islands or are planning on climbing a few mountains over the summer, the Survival is the Utilikilt you’ve been dreaming of.
Requested by adventurer and tattoo historian Vince Hemingson and worn by the original “Survivor” contestant Richard Hatch (O.K., he was naked most of the time, but he totally wore it on TV), the Survival is the most advanced Utilikilt we offer. Whether you’re climbing a mountain, planning a three-week sojourn into the back woods or just looking for a way to carry 20 bottles of beer, the Survival is the kilt for you.
The survival is basically an Original, a Mocker and a Workman spliced together with a bunch of new features on top. It’s more than a Utilikilt, it’s a way of life.
The Survival features the deep internal slant pockets of the Mocker, plus a pair of detachable side-saddle cargo pockets (each with its own closure flap and belt loops.)
Basically each cargo pocket can be pulled off and used like a belt pack. Wading across a river and don’t want to get your stuff wet? Pull off the cargo pockets, stuff the rest of the Utilikilt inside and toss it across to shore. Pockets stuffed full as you get to the airport? Pull off the pockets, drop them on the x-ray conveyor belt, and stride on through the metal detector. Wear the Survival for awhile and you’ll be shocked at just how useful these removable pockets really are.
Each cargo pocket is equipped with elastic-rimmed gussets, so it’ll expand to fit all your junk, and fold right back to flat after use.
The two rear pockets don’t come off, but they are elastic rimmed and can hold a heroic amount of stuff. Wear your Survival Utilikilt and you might just leave that Hello Kitty backpack at home.
The Survival’s maximum capacity is 20 Bottles of the survival beverage of your choice. That’s six in the front slant pockets, ten in the cargo pockets and four in the back. With the Survival around your waist, you’ll never go thirsty.
Other Features:
- Key clasp on the front of the Survival keeps your massive keychain out of the way and leaves room for more beer in the pockets.
- The Survival introduces our new modesty closure system. Using a simple button and loop setup, the new system keeps your Utilikilt closed in even the toughest wind so you won’t flash your buddies on the trail. Another loop and button pulls the front and back of the Survival together, keeping your ass covered for those long climbs up a windy mountain, short bear-avoiding tree climbs or long drunken nights sleeping one off on some strange couch.
- Circular UK trinity logo (Form Follows Function) and “Utilikilts” printed in block letters below.
Reviews
Ask Dethroner
The gear presented by Midas Clothing, as well as that by Utilikilts, the better-known design house based out of Seattle, seems to be trying to integrate itself into society rather than clash with it. It’s a noble effort, and honestly not that outlandish. Hell, men have been wearing some form of dress or skirt for thousands of years; it’s only been in the last couple of hundred that the institution has fallen out of favor in western civ. Bringing it back is a challenge, but these companies are fighting the good fight.
We
do see men in utilikilts with increasing regularity, and again, it’s
within the relative fringe of society, but the men wearing these jobs
are less thumbing their nose at society and more thumbing their nose at
convention, which I personally like to get behind. Utilikilt wearers
seem to come from all walks of life and are the least likely candidates
to worry about being mistaken for gay because, honestly, it takes some
pretty serious confidence in one’s masculinity to pull this garment off
correctly. And when they do, it’s pretty cool, and perhaps the single
greatest hope that the notion may find a toehold of acceptance by
modern civilization.
Like most radical changes in modern dress, it will take a well-known, respected figure to push this thing over the hump. Top hats died a noble death when JFK attended his inauguration with a bare head and remained classy.
The funny thing about kilts is that within the elite class, formal events allow the traditional kilt to be worn with effortless grace by those of Scottish descent. Beneath that there is an enormous gap before it’s acceptable again, and then it finds itself reappearing within the likes of RPG players, members of the Society for Creative Anachronism, heavy metal band members, computer jocks who can get away with anything they want, and the occasional biker at a street fair. Usually what we have is a fellow whose machismo is so unquestionable that he can rock the kilt without inviting the cocked eyebrow, but at the heart it’s a guy who simply doesn’t give a fuck what anyone thinks, and does what he does cos he likes it that way.
I think we’re a long way off from the average Joe Blow wearing a comfortable men’s skirt while washing his car in the driveway on a Saturday morning. But I also have to admit, having work a skirt a few times myself, it’s a comfortable way to go. Very liberating, especially if you’re regimental.
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