Still getting used to it.

[arycogre]

Sitting... takes some getting used to.

Went to a department picnic at a beach today and had some mild issues sitting at the picnic table. Ladies from a table across the way asked me to cross my legs as they had gotten too much a view for their liking (or perhaps liked too much ;)

I had thought I pushed the front down enough to cover the crotchable area, but I guess not. Later one of them said they saw my black underwear. Apparently I hadn't been exposed too much because I wasn't wearing black underwear. Yes, as it was a company related activity I did wear something underneath, but they obviously hadn't seen what it was.

The interesting part of it all was that I didn't feel self-conscious at all. I had worried prior to wearing my kilt that I would be more concerned about giving off a flash here or there, but I wasn't worried in the slightest. Kilt breeds confidence? (Beyond whatever amount is needed to wear one in the first place?)

Cool day out though. While on the way to the beach I got to see the largest building in the world (by volume - the Boeing Plant in Everett, WA).

[Archangel]

I don't mean to keep plugging my new sporran but I'm very happy with it. Your incident is one of the reasons why. Part of my early training was that one of the purposes of a sporran was to keep the apron down. Like one of the other threads is discussing: if one doesn't purpose to prevent accidents, then the accident is on purpose.

[chasem]

if nothing else, kinda cross your ankles and hold them under the seat beneath you... not as girly as crossing your legs at the knees, but still keeps things relatively tucked away.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

This is why I always tell men that "if you are going to wear a kilt you need to learn to sit like a lady."

Us guys are too used to sitting in shorts or pants, with our knees wide apart -- I'm guilty of the same thing. You just can't do this in a kilt, I don't care how large a sporran you have.

Crossing your ankles helps a lot. But I find the biggest help to be extending your legs some, assuming there is room, rather than sitting with your knees bent at a right angle. If you extend your leg out, it doesn't afford nearly the same view.

After all, what you do are don't wear under your kilt isn't anyone else's buisness, and you want to preserve the mystery!
M

[Freelander Sporrano]

I find a sporran helps push down the front of the kilt. However I use the "Chop " method too(Push the front down with a little chop of the hand)
extending the legs as Matt says is also a good method.
BTW nice picture

[sav]

Ditto to all the advice given so far. BTW, what sort of kilt are you wearing there? Looks like camo, but couldn't make out much more. Nice pic, tho.

[GatorUK]

However I use the "Chop " method

That just somehow sounds wrong! heh heh

[Graham]

That just somehow sounds wrong! heh heh

yeh, not recommended if you have a black belt and plan a family

I like the extended legs thing too, I'm never comfortable crossing legs, it tends to cut off the circulation in my leg and is not really comfy for a (hum..) man.

If I'm carrying a bag, rucksack etc, I tend to place the item in front of me and between my legs when I sit. This provides further privacy.

[jjoseph]

This is why I always tell men that "if you are going to wear a kilt you need to learn to sit like a lady."

Us guys are too used to sitting in shorts or pants, with our knees wide apart -- I'm guilty of the same thing. You just can't do this in a kilt, I don't care how large a sporran you have.

Crossing your ankles helps a lot. But I find the biggest help to be extending your legs some, assuming there is room, rather than sitting with your knees bent at a right angle.
M

Maybe it's because I have Tina Turner legs (no laughter from the cheap seats, gents!), but I have the opposite experience. Keeping my knees together or my legs straighter causes the kilt to drap off to the side. NOT good. -- Crossing my ankles and spreading my knees wider the I normally would in trousers lets the kilt drape lower affording quite a bit more coverage/security. The weight of a sporran helps tremendously in this regard. But the last time I saw a woman sit like that, she was on an old wooden porch with a mouthful of snuff, a can of beer, wearing a floursack dress and screaming howdy to us grandkids on one of our forays back to "the holler".... Believe me when I say she didn't sit "like a lady" LOLOL.
Scotty

[David Thornton]

This is why I haven't worn mine to a baseball game yet. I KNOW that I put one foot up on the chair in front of me for the last two or three innings!
Like my neighbors too much to subject them to THAT.
David