Accidental exposure

[Tobus]

Yes I've noticed the kilt tends to blow upwards in even a mild wind if you walk too close to walls etc.

Yep, wearing the kilt means you suddenly have a new appreciation for how the wind moves around objects. Certain areas between buildings can be wind tunnels, and other areas can have strange vortices that make the pleats fly.

Personally, though, I've never had the problem of "exposure" whilst wearing a traditional kilt. Even in 45-mph gusts that were blowing over tables and making vendor tents strain at their moorings (as it were), the weight of a full-yardage kilt doesn't seem to be an issue. Yes, the pleats will move around some, and may even lift up in a bellows-style dance. And spectators may get a view of my upper thigh, and perhaps even a cheek or two. But all the movement of the kilt is around the pleated sides and back. The aprons don't tend to move, especially with a sporran in place. So I never worry about exposure from wind. If I'm ever in winds high enough for that to happen, I'm thinking I'll have other concerns that outweigh it.

Falling down, though, is something that always scares me in a kilt. The one time I fell -over-teakettle in a kilt, thankfully, was out on a hiking trail where the only witness was my wife and her horse. She laughed so hard she cried. And if I'm honest, I think her horse laughed too.