Did Mother Nature Lift Your Kilt?

[NewKilt]

I wear black undies - all the time so I don't worry, and why should the sight of undies upset anyone? I see young lads all the time walking the streets with their undies showing, it's almost a fashion statement!

Same here, Graham, although not always black. If you are referring to those young guys who wear their pants down so low that 3-4 inches of their underwear is showing - I've begun to wonder if they are trying to get the crotch of their pants down lower for comfort.

Darrell

[bikercelt1]

I have had Marilyn effect a couple of times, most notably in the carpark/parade ground outside Edinburgh Castle! We just finished visiting the castle and I'd been trying to hold down my 16 oz kilt much of the day when a sudden gust caught me unprepared. I don't know how high my kilt went, but it was high enough. Time stood still. I felt as though the entire world had just frozen in mid-heartbeat to stare at me. If there are any pictures I fervently hope to never see them. I think I've had at least one "Marilyn Moment" in every kilt I own but none as memorable as that.

Jamie

[pbpersson]

I don't know if this counts but it happened to me last night - three times. I hope no one saw as I think that no one was around.

I was going out for a walk around 9:00 (and late at night I always dress for comfort, wink-wink) and I was trying to lock my front door as I left. Well, apparently the wind was blowing into the entryway, hitting the door, and just heading straight up because the front of my kilt started billowing up while I had one hand on the doorknob pulling on the door and the other hand on the key.

So, I pushed it back down into place and returned to my work on the door and then IT DID IT AGAIN! I looked down at it in disbelief as it gradually kept billowing higher and higher. I pushed it back down and said out loud "STOP THAT!!" as though that would do any good.....

Later when I returned from the walk and was trying to unlock the door the BACK of the kilt started flying up in the air. This is my very first experience with this and I think it was really flying. I put my hand back there, held it in place, and then once inside walked to a mirror to see how high it got. High enough......

This is a Utilikilt original.

[Riverkilt]

I remember those Phoenix winds well. Those UK originals are great for the summer heat, not so great in a monsoon wind.

Danger zones are at barriers like that - a door...I also have to watch it at automatic doors, like at the supermarket...the sudden air pressure exchange can do wild things.

For some real kilt lifting fun stand near a pick up truck on a windy day - you get both the wind hitting the truck as a barrier and the wind coming under the truck to somehow provide a lift.

I've paid more attention to how women in skirts cope with the wind and sometimes up here, on what they call the 'windy mesa', they just put their hands straight down at their sides and gather in any slack until they get out of the wind.

You know you're in trouble when the bottom of your kilt apron is plastered to your face by the wind...

Someone who understands sailboating could proabably write a pretty good book on kilting in the wind.

My favorite kilt in the wind adventure was in Albuquerque, in front of a hotel restaurant, tables next to the window inside, me outside in my basil UK survival II which had previously withstood helicopter rotar wash with ease...I never dreamed there'd be one of those sidewalk upvents like in New York City and Chicago...but there was. Fortunately, I couldn't see the diners since my kilt was up in my face...just kept on walking and avoided the grate on my return trip.

I imagine there are people still telling the story about the time the guy in the kilt walked by and the updraft hit him....

Hmmm, this is an old thread..did I already tell this story....sorry.....??

Ron

[Raphael]

If the wind hasn't lift up your kilt yet, yoou need your kilt more often.

[morrison]

Twice, full flares, regimental, in blue "Mocker," uptown Seattle near Bon Marche` (oops, I meant Macy's?!), and again at the Westlake Center in 'Desert Camo' ripstop "Original." Both in the combining effect of the whip of Metro transit meeting wind compression at street corner amidst highrise (odd pun) buildings. Both in heavy automobile and crowded foot traffic. Who's going to fault you when your hands are busy with an Old Navy shopping bag, and a malted frappe? My heart in the matter of the nature of the wind/Monroe lift effect is quite simple. I am comfortable with what I am wearing (and not). If the wind causes the cloth to flap around more than normal, I'll probably turn away from the press of the gust momentarily and then move on. It's not likely for me to put my hand into the cloth. A few times (seems often) when my fingers have been filthy with grit, oil or mud I've touched cloth and ruined or nearly ruined a good garment. So I avoid touching clothing before looking at my fingers to see if I've accidentally gotten something on them. If someone is going to be standing waiting for the breeze to provide a showing for them..., Well, I am not uncomfortable when the winds blow motion into anyone elses pleats, wraps or aprons, nor am I uncomfortable when the laws of physics are at work where I am. At least it doesn't seem to matter to me concerning the rise and fall of cloth and temperature, wind or no wind. Too bad for those out there in the general public with not much better to do than to look for flare ups! May the curtain rise and the show begin. Onstage, of course!
rsl