Air travel

[RogerWS76]

In my experience this year, whenever I wear my kilt on the plane TSA makes me stand in their scanner with my hands over my head. I have been told it is because I am wearing "non-standard" clothing.

[david30101]

In my experience this year, whenever I wear my kilt on the plane TSA makes me stand in their scanner with my hands over my head. I have been told it is because I am wearing "non-standard" clothing.

Its still a "double standard".. They should make women do the same thing.. The ones in skirts and dresses.... Im flying Kilted for the first time in Nov. I have a SportKilt "brand" that im wearing on plane because it dosent have any medal of any kind to set off the medal detectors. I dont dress "traditionally" anyhow. I will have on a t shirt, socks and tennis shoes with my sportkilt. I dont have a sporran because the Kilt has 2 pockets already, and anything "metal" will be in my carry on bag..

[JRB]

In my experience this year, whenever I wear my kilt on the plane TSA makes me stand in their scanner with my hands over my head. I have been told it is because I am wearing "non-standard" clothing.

When my wife and I have flown this year we both had to stand in the scanner with our hands over our heads. In all cases we were either wearing jeans or shorts at the time. I was under the impression that was just normal procedure in certain airports.

[Deirachel]

Depends on the threat level, local airport rules, and as mentioned in the linked thread, the screener being a jerk/not knowing what to do.

[jason10mm]

If you mean they made you raise your hands while standing in that shower booth looking think, that is because it is a body scanner, not a metal detector. Everyone is told to raise their hands in that device.

Quite frankly I think the only reason kilts raise any eyebrows or generate discussion is from the widespread belief that the gents are commando underneath it.

I have NO idea why that belief persists

[John_Carrick]

If the buckles or something else that is metal don't set of the scanner they also select a proportion of all passengers for a search anyway. I get picked whether I'm in a kilt or not.
John

[thoth51]

I recently flew from Singapore to Hong Kong and back in my contemporary denim SKILT for the first time. I chose it for the two roomy cargo pockets and lack of metal buckles. No problem here.

[JohntheBiker]

Of course, there is no accounting for the strange behavior of airlines:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/06/18/...your-cleavage/

[david30101]

If the buckles or something else that is metal don't set of the scanner they also select a proportion of all passengers for a search anyway. I get picked whether I'm in a kilt or not.
John

Wondering why they would do that? If you dont set off a scanner, then you dont have any kind of "medal" on you.. Right? Then your not in any risk of "violation" right? If a scanner dosnt find anything, What will a set of hands do?

[unixken]

Wondering why they would do that? If you dont set off a scanner, then you dont have any kind of "medal" on you.. Right? Then your not in any risk of "violation" right? If a scanner dosnt find anything, What will a set of hands do?

Things like ceramic-bladed knives and other such goodies wont set off a metal detector, since they contain no metal. Many such items are also x-ray transparent. That's why some are chosen "at random" when the metal detector fails to find anything. As for who they pick, it's debatable whether it's truly random, due to style of dress, or whatever other criteria. But I can think of lots of items that wouldn't set off a metal detector... even if they did contain small amounts of metal (such as hypodermic syringes).