Did Mother Nature Lift Your Kilt?

[GlassMan]

I had a full kilt lifting once. It was last April in San Francisco. We had just finished eating lunch at a restaurant at the top of one of that city's many hills. I was being helped out of my wheel chair and into a taxi when, just as I stood up, a massive wind gust came up the hill and lifted my entire kilt completely up. The wind was so strong it even caused my sporran to lift slightly. Needless to say I was quite embarassed that I had just mooned the groom's mother.

[philbo]

My only full-blown experience was in NYC, wearing a utilikilt. It wasn't exactly mother nature at work, it was the subway system, and I happened to be standing on one of those ventilation grates in the sidewalk, right above the subway. Well, when the train goes by, underneath the streets, gusts of air blow directly upward out of these ventilation grates, and...

I just kept walking as if nothing happened. Of course, knowing New York City, nobody probably paid any attention.

[cessna152towser]

The wind the wind the naughty wind,
That blows those kilts so high,
But God is just,
And sends the dust,
To blind the wicked eye.

[cessna152towser]

A Scottish heavyweight kilt shouldn't lift much unless there is a very strong updraft and should normally preserve modesty. A lightweight polyester kilt is a different matter and being a non-traditional kilt there is no justification for wearing such a kilt regimental. Clean underwear is an essential accessory for lightweight kilts.

[KiltedKnight]

A Scottish heavyweight kilt shouldn't lift much unless there is a very strong updraft and should normally preserve modesty. A lightweight polyester kilt is a different matter and being a non-traditional kilt there is no justification for wearing such a kilt regimental. Clean underwear is an essential accessory for lightweight kilts.

Clean underwear, got it! :confused:

Chris.

[Pleater]

I was heading East, wind was coming from the South, about a Force 5. I reached an open area by the church just before a cross road, and the swirling wind blew the pleats out to one side and flapped them like a sheet on a washing line.

Luckily I had on a heavy cotton petticoat, with a lace edging which was almost as long as the kilt. However, the sight of all that frou-frou fabric was enough to divert the attention of a driver and he caused a double shunt as the lights changed at the crossroad.

He glared at me ferociously - but his wife was giving him an earful over the damage to the car so I went on my way to the bank.

[binx]

A lightweight polyester kilt is a different matter and being a non-traditional kilt there is no justification for wearing such a kilt regimental.

WHAT? I love the comfort and air-conditioning of my lightweight polyviscose in the summer! That's my justification, and modesty to the winds...

binx

[whiteravenJr.]

It has happened quite a few times once or twice golfing once hiking and a few times coming out of buildings.

[Nick]

If it wasn't for the fact that my winter coat is mid-thigh-length my kilt would have been lifted last Monday. We had our St. Patricks Day Storm Sunday and Monday, and I walk to and from classes. There were some pretty powerful windgusts when I was brushing off my car. I was wearing my SWK standard, which is lighter weight than my other kilts (though, I must say, warmer.)