Did Mother Nature Lift Your Kilt?

[Shay]

Alright, I hear a lot of you guys talk about the wind catching your kilt and sending it up. I also hear reams about how kilts are heavier than women's skirts.

I have not had a wind catch my skirt up for more than maybe six inches my entire life. And I wear a skirt of some sort about once a week. And let me tell ya fellas, they are much lighter than yours. But it doesn't happen quick enough I'm not aware of it.

So if you've actually had your kilt lifted by Mother Nature herself, before you could stop it, please post here, and let us know exactly how it happened. Because I'm starting to think the overwhelming worry and eternal handwringing is nothing more than, if you'll excuse the pun, a bunch of hot air.

[Colin]

My sister got married at a dude ranch this past summer, which was located in a valley. The day of the wedding, the wind really picked up. I was standing on the front deck of the main house and a very strong gust of wind lifted the back of my kilt clean up. Unfortunately for my brother-in-law he was standing right behind me. It was no suprise this past Christmas that my gift from him was labelled to Sasquatch ***.

[Robin]

Sorry...no juicy story from me...my kilts are loyal to me...windforce 8 proof.

Cold air btw

[davedove]

Once when I was wearing my SW Nightstalker. There must have been some strange air patterns swirling around me because the back of the kilt started to float up. I noticed it when it just about up to crotch level and backed up against a pole to stand so it wouldn't happen while I was there. I was at the back of the group I was with, so no one saw anything.

[Southern Breeze]

It's happend to me twice at work, in public no less. The first time I was wearing a Stillwater standerd and the second was with a 16oz. militery kilt. If I'd been paying attention to the wind I would have been prepared. There have been numerous close encounters with leaf blowers also.

[Rigged]

Three times in very windy conditions in three different public places with three different kilts (caramel workman's, black workman's, Bear kilt).

Mother Nature is a naughty old bird!

[Shay]

YEah, but I'm talking full monty exposure here, not catching it against something or being able to stop it with your hands...

[Rigged]

I just want to add that my kilts have so much material that I literally don't feel the kilt against my legs most of the time. So when a breeze lifts it up, the kilt is up pretty high before I notice that anything's amiss.

Also, I suspect that when the wind hits a kilt just right, it acts like a large sail -- like a spinnaker, and catches the wind and billows in the only direction it can -- up.

I'm not in windy areas often enough to get a lot of practice dealing with the kilts blowing up, but I've read and noted the tips listed in another thread on this subject.

[Southern Breeze]

On both occasions there was nothing from the waist down,in all directions, but black briefs, hairy legs,socks and boots.

[Andrew Breecher]

I obviously don't know what skirts you wear, Shay, but most women's short skirts don't have as many pleats, and are cut closer to the leg, so there's less "free" material to catch the wind. Those skirts with more material tend to be longer. Kilts just have so much material in the pleats that when they get going there's no stopping them - once the wind has caught them it's very easy for them to rise up, since the pleats just unfold and spread out.

That said, I've only had one or two real "blowups" - and I just laughed, and held my hands down at my sides from then on. One was in a very windy valley near a busy road, so that when cars drove by they'd create a little eddy storm that channeled right along the building I was standing next to. The next was my fault, as I walked across a subway grille in the street just as a train was going by beneath me. Oops!

Andrew.