Quote Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome
This is why I always tell men that "if you are going to wear a kilt you need to learn to sit like a lady."

Us guys are too used to sitting in shorts or pants, with our knees wide apart -- I'm guilty of the same thing. You just can't do this in a kilt, I don't care how large a sporran you have.

Crossing your ankles helps a lot. But I find the biggest help to be extending your legs some, assuming there is room, rather than sitting with your knees bent at a right angle.
M
Maybe it's because I have Tina Turner legs (no laughter from the cheap seats, gents!), but I have the opposite experience. Keeping my knees together or my legs straighter causes the kilt to drap off to the side. NOT good. -- Crossing my ankles and spreading my knees wider the I normally would in trousers lets the kilt drape lower affording quite a bit more coverage/security. The weight of a sporran helps tremendously in this regard. But the last time I saw a woman sit like that, she was on an old wooden porch with a mouthful of snuff, a can of beer, wearing a floursack dress and screaming howdy to us grandkids on one of our forays back to "the holler".... Believe me when I say she didn't sit "like a lady" LOLOL.
Scotty