Did Mother Nature Lift Your Kilt?

[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....

[davedove]

I'm sorry, but all these stories just make me think "One time, at kilt camp, ..."

[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

[binx]

It happens when I get into the car...like the wind whips up into a whirlwind-like way and blows it up. But the door keeps it pretty well discreet. One other time was waiting in line at a concert downtown alongside the building. The back of the well-worn AK went right up! Same principle...people behind me gave a good-natured laugh, but nothing more came of it.

binx

[Manu]

Its happened to me a few times wearing my USAK, casual model, while going down the really steep stairs going down to River street here in Savannah, and another time when I walked over a hot air vent, true Marylin monroe style. I even took a picture after it happened accidentally.

[CameronTaylor]

My only windward moment was while talking to the mother of a young lass I'm courting while wearing my SK - noted for their lightweight elsewhere. A couple folks in the parking lot behind me got some lunar exposure but white canes weren't required for them later.


CT - her Mom likes me

[KiltedKnight]

My onliest mishap was during last years Scottish festival at the Queen Mary in Long Beach. I was going to take the elevator down from the top deck of the landing that serves the Queen Mary which is completely open to the weather save for the roof and the wind came from out of nowhere and raised my 16 oz., My wife said it came up pretty high. Mother Nature is a wicked little gal, isn't she?

Chris.