Wearing the kilt while driving

**Zardoz** · 17th September 11, 07:17 AM

I have a smallish sportscar with grippy cloth seats and a fixed steering wheel. I don't have too much trouble sliding in with my PV kilts, but the wool ones don't slide on the seats as easy. I just don't have room in there to lift my butt or do much adjusting.
I take a piece of stiff paper, like brown butcher's wrap etc, don't use newsprint!, and cut a piece about the size of the seat. Place it in the seat and sit in the car sideways, do your sweep and get everything nice, and then rotate to the front, paper and all. I developed this idea by accident, but it's been working OK.

**sirdaniel1975** · 17th September 11, 02:50 PM

Like Jock said, take sporran off if it's an issue.

For keeping the pleats straighter, watch my video on how I get in a car whilst kilted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOZt...e_gdata_player

Hope this helps.

**Chas** · 17th September 11, 03:11 PM

Excellent demonstration! I think it should be a sticky, somewhere.

Of course, we here in the UK are lucky having right hand drive vehicles. I just pleatsweep and sit into the driving seat as if I were sitting in a chair. When I swivel round into the driving position my pleats are in the right direction and will stay there.

As to the sporran, if I am sitting, driving, eating, toileting or dancing close, I push my sporran on to my left hip. Far easier to do if you use a sporran strap rather than chains.

Regards

Chas

**Red Stag** · 17th September 11, 08:44 PM

Just drive naked!

**rlloyd** · 15th November 11, 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by Chas

Excellent demonstration! I think it should be a sticky, somewhere.

Of course, we here in the UK are lucky having right hand drive vehicles. I just pleatsweep and sit into the driving seat as if I were sitting in a chair. When I swivel round into the driving position my pleats are in the right direction and will stay there.

As to the sporran, if I am sitting, driving, eating, toileting or dancing close, I push my sporran on to my left hip. Far easier to do if you use a sporran strap rather than chains.

Regards

Chas

So that's why the UK has right-hand drive!

**OC Richard** · 19th November 11, 12:05 PM

Just now I've returned from a piping gig (kilted of course) and an issue came up: when driving kilted, I use both hands to sweep the pleats as I get into the car, meaning that I can't get into the car while holding things in my hands, which I can do if wearing pants.

Otherwise it's much more convenient and comfortable driving kilted.