Riding in cars with kilts

[BonnieT100]

How do you guys keep from wrinkling the pleats while sitting in a vehicle? I have a truck, so I can't really just drop into the seat.

[Iolaus]

I don't worry about it too much; I just try to make sure I don't close it in the door!

In the Bronco, I sometimes brace my back against the seat, lift my butt, and try to get the mass going in generally the same direction, but that's about it; I'm always afraid I'm going to break the seat when I do that.

[davedove]

There are several little tricks you can pick up from the different threads, but the bottom line is that if you spend any length of time in the car, the pleats will be wrinkled. Kilts just weren't designed with car seats in mind.:confused:

[Blu (Ontario)]

Do the butt sweep. Sweep your hands under your backside to pull the pleats smooth before sitting. It works best with both hands. Use both hands. With a bit of practice, it becomes quite natural. It works indorrs as well as cars.

[Archangel]

Do the butt sweep. Sweep your hands under your backside to pull the pleats smooth before sitting. It works best with both hands. Use both hands. With a bit of practice, it becomes quite natural. It works indorrs as well as cars.

(Pontiac Vibe) I've given up worrying about it. My previous car was impossible to get into with a kilt, (every car designer should try getting into a Saturn in a kilt, no wonder they don't repeat sell to women.) This one is simpler but, with a full kilt, it's hard to get the bulk material to be comfortable without fussing. (If I have to fuss, it's a fashion statement, not clothing.)
I prefer to drive in shorts. If the drive is going to be much over an hour, I'll wear shorts and change there. That's easy enough to do right in the parking lot (the concept that started Sportkilt).

Now, loading the Vibe for a picnic in today's wind was a challenge.

Way too many parenthetical statements.

[Iolaus]

Do the butt sweep. Sweep your hands under your backside to pull the pleats smooth before sitting. It works best with both hands. Use both hands. With a bit of practice, it becomes quite natural. It works indorrs as well as cars.

It's a little difficult for him to do that while he climbs into a truck.

I'm with Archangel on this one; I may do a cursury sweep for comfort, like I described, but if I have to worry about the pleats too much, it becomes a fashion statement, not clothing.

[Yaish]

With my UK's its not very difficult, just sort of lift like Iolaus does and then sweep. Its a little harder in a traditional because their are more pleats and the material is softer. If I am wearing my traditional kilt its actually easier to just be the passenger if that is an option (since the pleats get closed in US vehicles on the passenger side, vice the drivers side where sliding in opens them up.)

If I am wearing a sporran and I am a passenger I dont have to worry about it interfering with the wheel either.

[Big Paul]

I ask the very same question a while ago... The trick that works the best for me is to wrap a bath towel tightly around your bottom and get in.. It holds everything in place!! It may look a little weird, but it works!!

[filman]

I have a truck so it is a little harder for me to climb in but once in I do the bottom sweep with both hands , this works but i still have a few new folds in them but it is not that bad.. But I realy do not cared that all my pleats stay perfect. That is just to much for me to worry about.. (Hunny are my Pleats flat and straite? )

[timber]

I hold the pleats with one hand while climbing into my truck. For short trips that's all I do. If it is going to be a longer trip, I lift and sweep after getting in. A few wrinkles in the pleats aren't that big a deal to me. If someone is going to get close enough to see them and comment, they would have to be a really good friend...