Did Mother Nature Lift Your Kilt?

[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.

[646guy]

I was walking from the office one day after changing into my kilt after hours and was heading down to a rugby party when (and mind you not mother nature but it was a big gust of wind) the back of my kilt went flying up as a subway train went rumbling by under the grate I was walking on. I didn't really feel anything moving in the back prior to the big gust but as soon as it hit, it was Marilyn Monroe city....

[Eujeankilt]

Shay,

From what I've seen, most women's skirts are more form fitting than kilts. Do you own any five or eight yard skirts? I know women do wear pleated skirts but now that I wear kilts. I tend to notice skirts more. Most of what I see are tighter or longer than kilts.

The first month I wore a kilt, I was standing outside at the community college I work for. I was standing near a building with short walls around some walkways. While I was chatting on my cell phone, I felt a lightness behind me. I turned and looked. Sure enough, the back hem of my UK Mocker tapped me on the shoulder blade. It was a brief gust and flash, but it did happen. Luckily, no one was around.

Now, I anticipate the wind and keep my arms down when the wind is up.

On our way back home from Christmas vacation, I stopped for fuel north of Sacramento. The wind was so fierce, I had to tuck my kilt between my legs in front and lean my backside against my truck to keep from flashing. :confused:

Dale