Black light reactive kilt - Anyone done this?

[jeremy j starche]

The Lady and I were having one of those wandering discussions when she mentioned that the local mall put in a "Black Light Mini-Golf Course."

For some reason, I had a sudden image of wearing a kilt where only one of the narrower stripes reacted to black light and I would be there, golfing away looking like some 3D generated model.

Not that I really have the resources to pursue such a thing -- but it made me wonder if someone else has done it.

Maybe pick up a low-cost kilt some where and hand stitch in a few lines of something .... Hmmmm....

[Zardoz]

I have found that the white stripes on my PV kilts will react to black light. I don't know if this is "normal" or because they've been washed with detergent with "brighteners" etc...

[ChattanCat]

Black light kilt? No, not on purpuse!

[WClarkB]

Hey, duuuude,
Like seriously psychedelic
the swish under black lights
awesome
nothing like it since the 60's

[Highlander31]

Hey, duuuude,
Like seriously psychedelic
the swish under black lights
awesome
nothing like it since the 60's

I remember the 60's,...sort of...

[SteveB]

Black light tends to react best with white of any stripe. The more "blue" in the white the brighter the appearance. When exposed to black light, the colour scheme can produce some very different results.

Under the black light at a local shopping mall in an otherwise dark space, my MacNeil wool tank on ancient colours appears as mostly white with some design, but not plaid. I was wearing a white fitted Polo shirt and oatmeal hose. The hose turned an off white and the top was ...white. A picture taken of it looked like I was wearing white fishnet stockings and a white patterned knee length gathered dress, with a wide belt. The young lass that I was escorting as a favour to her father on a shopping trip, enjoyed the whole thing immensely. She had her friend that snapped the picture forward it to her mobile so that she could show it off later. Her father chuckled a little, and then pointed out that she looked very...expecting..in the photo. The three of us got a lot of laughs out of it. She would not forward the photo to me. Since it was a dress shopping trip, and for her to get some gifts for her family for an upcoming holiday, I reminded her of being careful of what she wears to some of these "lighted" events.

Not to run out of mileage, she used the picture to show her boyfriend the "gal" that takes her shopping. He told her that he liked the look.

I somehow meet a lot of very young lasses at this mall now.

Slainte

[ForresterModern]

Under the black light at a local shopping mall in an otherwise dark space, my MacNeil wool tank on ancient colours appears as mostly white with some design, but not plaid. I was wearing a white fitted Polo shirt and oatmeal hose. The hose turned an off white and the top was ...white. A picture taken of it looked like I was wearing white fishnet stockings and a white patterned knee length gathered dress, with a wide belt.
Slainte

Part of the effect in the camera may have been an artifact of the way modern digital cameras work. When you turn a camera on it does an automatic check called the white balance, and if it was turned on where the blacklight was already on it may very well have had difficulty getting true white settings, thereby throwing off the registration of colors and their subsequent appearence in the picture. Especially if what you saw with your eyes was different from what showed up in the picture.

[SteveB]

The problem with wearing something is that unless a mirror or reflective object is around, you depend on others and/or the photo to see it. I am not up on the wizz bang of mobile telephone cameras, even though my mobile supposedly has a camera, I have never bothered to figure how to work it. According to another gent visiting the display at the same time as I, the photo was pretty accurate as to what he saw.

The particular display was a temporary set up to promote a "scary" video. There were a lot of special effects going on as you walked through. Most of the visitors that went through got some kind of a scare out of it. The above mentioned gent and I were laughing on the way out past the sales table. The promoter of the video asked us why we had no fear factor. I just answered that live incoming mortars beat a video any day in that department, the young gent said likewise. He had just returned from the Sandbox. He asked me where I got the experience to which I answered Vietnam. We got an even bigger laugh.

BTW, he may join us as he will be getting his kilt real soon.

Slainte.

[WClarkB]

I remember the 60's,...sort of...

For reference sake will we be referring to that decade as the "recent past" OK?

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Our local bowling alley has laser bowling. On Saturday my husband and his friends were doing "Scotch Doubles" so he wore his kilt. MacPherson actually looks pretty cool under black lights because of the double white stripes and the yellow would show up when he was directly under the light.

--Chelsea McMurdo--