Did Mother Nature Lift Your Kilt?

**Shay** · 8th March 06, 04:21 PM

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** · 8th March 06, 04:26 PM

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** · 8th March 06, 04:33 PM

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

Cold air btw

**davedove** · 8th March 06, 04:37 PM

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** · 8th March 06, 04:40 PM

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** · 8th March 06, 04:48 PM

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** · 8th March 06, 04:53 PM

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

**Rigged** · 8th March 06, 04:56 PM

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** · 8th March 06, 05:00 PM

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

**GlassMan** · 8th March 06, 09:55 PM

I had a full kilt lifting once. It was last April in San Francisco. We had just finished eating lunch at a restaurant at the top of one of that city's many hills. I was being helped out of my wheel chair and into a taxi when, just as I stood up, a massive wind gust came up the hill and lifted my entire kilt completely up. The wind was so strong it even caused my sporran to lift slightly. Needless to say I was quite embarassed that I had just mooned the groom's mother.