Did Mother Nature Lift Your Kilt?

[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.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Shay,

I think that it is a combination of the number of pleats, and the amount of material in the kilt. I have not had many problems myself, but I have found that on a windy day, approaching the car can pose challenges, especially in a UK.

And I have to agree (based on some recent research) that most women's skirts are tailored much closer to the leg than a kilt.

[Whiteraven]

It's happenned to me a few times. I live in a very windy area ( the front range of the Rockies ) and like most of the others, it's ussually around parked vehicles. Other than those few times the only other time it happenned to my was on the golf course. I was on a raised tee box when in the midle of my backswing the wind picked up, my kilt with it. Although it helped my drive, for some reason the rest of the guys I was golfing with duffed their drives badly :rolleyes: They did buy me a beer, for answering the age old question for them

Whiteraven

[Riverkilt]

Hey Shay, I can PM you a pic of the proof - Don't think Hank wants that sorta thing on the board. Was on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon (venturi effect in the canyon maybe??) drying my basil UK Survival II near the bow of the raft...back end blew up mooning the rest of the folks aboard the raft. It was an AA float trip and a quick guy behind me not only documented the event, he shared it with most everyone else at the AA Roundup that weekend.

Another time, last summer, was on the Navajo Nation at the Tuba City swapmeet in my UK camo original. Wind was whipping that puppy around. I thought I was doing well until the FRONT end whipped up in my face in front of an "ama sani" (that's very elderly Navajo grandmother)...think it embarrassed me more than her since it wasn't my intent.

So far, no problems with my wool kilts or other contemporary kilts that I can recall.

Did get Marilyn Monroe'd in downtown Albuquerque, N.M. last June wearing a UK Survival II but think it would have done ANY kilt...was one of those sidewalk grates that suddenly blasts an updraft. I was directly over it and suddenly had my kilt in my face - all around. I was regimental and in front of a fancy restaurant with table seating by the windows...at dinner time. Didn't get a good look at the reactions, if any, of the diners...the windows were kinda tinted and I wanted AWAY from there!

Those are the one's I recall off the top of my head.

Ron

[John M.]

I am so glad it hasn't happened to me yet.

I'm used to the front over-apron blowing open from time to time, that never bothers me because the under-apron always stays closed.
I guess I've just been lucky. I even stood in the rotor wash of an Apache helicopter last year while video taping it's takeoff with no problem. That was in my far lighter BK cavas kilt even.

[GlassMan]

I had a full kilt lifting once. It was last April in San Francisco. We had just finished eating lunch at a restaurant at the top of one of that city's many hills. I was being helped out of my wheel chair and into a taxi when, just as I stood up, a massive wind gust came up the hill and lifted my entire kilt completely up. The wind was so strong it even caused my sporran to lift slightly. Needless to say I was quite embarassed that I had just mooned the groom's mother.