Driving question

[Scully]

I have just been shopping today and I have noticed that my AK gets a bit "wadded up" in back while getting the car. Is this common or did I miss the class telling the Kilted ones how to minimize this problem?
I may have to change my method of entry i think.

thanks Scully

[ForresterModern]

Ask your wife, ask a girlfriend, heck even ask your mother, to show you how they keep it from happening with their skirts. Here on the board it is affectionately known as "the Sweep".

Basically, as you go to sit down (this works for any sitting down situation) you reach behind your back and then gather and "sweep" the whole buch of pleated fabric behind you up against the back of your thighs and then sit down. With a car seat you have to add the bit about keeping your door-side hand in that holding position while you do the 90 degree twist to get your legs into the forward facing position and keep your pleats out of the closing car door.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound flippant, but there are lots of things like this that have been figured out and used and handed down by generations of skirt wearing women (think how to sit on the crapper in a kilt without wetting your pleats) that we kilt wearing men should feel free to learn from.

[george7]

Did you try the kilt sweep? Make sure you're sitting on plenty of fabric before you get rolling.

[macgreggor]

Hamish, the great kilted one, calims if you drive frome the right side the pleats and seat cooperate. I usually have my wife drive and everything seems to move together in the passenger (USA) seat.

I seem to recall something involving a towel around the pleats.

Best of luck

macG

[JRB]

Sometimes when getting in a car I will wrap a belt around my legs (over the pleats), sit in the car and, while holding the belt tight, swing my legs in. Then, once I'm in place I'll pull the belt out. This almost guarantees that your pleats will be in place while driving or riding.

[Scully]

Thanks for the advice. I went out later with my wife and she helped me out like you said.

[sathor]

The last two times out, I've had my leather trench coat on, which helped a little.

[sathor]

nd flippant, but there are lots of things like this that have been figured out and used and handed down by generations of skirt wearing women (think how to sit on the crapper in a kilt without wetting your pleats) that we kilt wearing men should feel free to learn from.

that's still a challenge on bad days, though I've almost thought about those little hooks on the door, but for those of us without gall bladders, that's not a real option.

[Carolina Kiltman]

For those of us who use left hand drive vehicles, the belt / towel will work. Another device is the swivel seat that arthritic older folks like to use. You sit on it, then swing your legs into the car.

[Highlander31]

For the times that I don't get the pleats completely in order, I lift up off the seat just enough to give a second sweep to ensure everything is in order.