WHAT IS A TACTICAL KILT?
It may have started as an April Fool’s joke, but the advanced performance, superior breathability, and unmistakable style of the tactical kilt from 5.11 offers everything you need to keep your inner Highlander on his toes. The innovative design of our purpose-built Tactical Duty Utility kilts is easy to wear (simply wrap it and snap it), it stands up to surprise breezes, and it lets you show your friends what manly really looks like. THE 5.11 TACTICAL DUTY KILT: WHY?! In 2012, we pulled what we thought was a great April Fool’s prank – we “launched” our tactical kilt by releasing a reveal video with no intention of actually producing the kilt. Turns out, the joke was on us. As soon as we released the video, it went viral and people started asking us how to buy the kilt. We started with a few thousand kilts, which flew out of the warehouse in no time. Because they sold out (and because there were still kilt-less people asking to order them), we ran a kilt promotion the