Oh, UL Fabric Gurus…

Also consider 8 momme Habitai silk from http://www.thaisilks.com/
My wife pinched my pygama top which I made out of red silk for wearing in the evenings in hotels and refuges. It turned out to be a shade too small for me. She is very fond of it.

Cheers

I would go with Ti-Goat's Nobul 1.

It breathes very well and is very soft.

A friend of mine used some kind of silk or silk-like lining fabric, used for suit coats, as extendable shorts. He's close to albino in color and likes to hike in shorts so he added an inner lining to his shorts that he can unfurl to turn his shorts into pants. Sort of weird billowy culotte pants that go to mid-calf. He says in all the years of hiking with them, they have never snagged or torn on any bushes.

I'm currently trying to make a skirt and considering using silk for part of the skirt but I still wonder if it's really that durable. I was going to repurpose a silk shirt. I also have a cotton/lycra/nylon shirt I'm considering.

I hiked part of the PCT with a cotton skirt. The only bad things about this skirt are the lack of pockets and the frayed hem that can pick up stickers.

I'm more worried about a skirt snagging on bushes or picking up a lot of stickers than getting wet.

P.S. This lady makes her own hiking skirts and they look really nice. She uses lycra and ripstop in panels.

http://ramblinghemlock.blogspot.com/2015/04/next-generation-diy-hiking-skirt.html

Friends of mine do the Haute Route every year. Ski all day, eat and party at night. They go ultralight as they have to ski with all their gear. A knit polyester dress, belts for their pants that are climbing strong and leg loops as part of their avalung packs are some of the stuff they use.