There was a thread here a while back, which I found absurd, about making uber-heavy kilt pins to hold down the kilt and even sewing lead weights into the hem of the kilt to keep it down!
I can't recall but I assume somebody mention that kilts don't have hems.
That being said I did have one time when my kilt was blowing around. We have strong "Santa Ana" winds here a couple times a year. They blow strongest through the mountain passes and canyons.
It so happens that somebody decided to build a cemetery right in the middle of one of the windiest passes, and at the height of the Santa Ana winds they hired me to pipe at a service.
The wind was so strong that I couldn't play the pipes while standing up! I had to lean back against a statue with my legs spread wide to achieve a stable 3-point stance.
I had wisely worn my long heavy goathair sporran which held the kilt down (when piping both your hands are occupied!)
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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