What you are asking about is what I like to call "Kiltmanship". Somewhere here at Xmarks you'll find an essay called the 4 C's of kilting. You can also find it easily at the Bravehearts' Kilt Forum. The C 'competence' is presented below:

Competence: Put on your kilt and practice kiltmanship. Get a full length mirror and learn everything you can about how to move in your kilt. Know exactly what will show under different circumstances, going up stairs, down stairs, sitting, standing back up, crossing your legs, wind effects, bending over. Know how to wear your kilt, practice it. If you can't go Regimental for fear of being exposed it is because you are not Competent to wear your damned kilt. Competence protects Freedom.

You really do get better and better at wearing your kilt ... the more you wear it the better you get. Practice really does make perfect.

As for specific techiques, well, they often vary greatly amongst us for all kinds of reasons. Glassman does a great job of explaining many of them. A good example of the variety of ways to do the same thing is this: rather than using the 'butt sweep' Glassman described, I will put my hands down to the chair on both sides using my wrists to capture my kilt as I sit down and slide back into the chair. If my hands are full I'll stand a few inches further from the chair, sit down on the edge of it and then slide back, smothing my kilt with my bottom.

Of course, men actually talking about this requires them to mometarily set aside their machisimo. Believe me, though, once you are Competent to wear your kilt you will look anything but feminine when you wear it. Conversations like this are a necessary part of perfecting your Kilt Competence.

One piece of advice from me, others may well disagree: In the wind concern yourself only with the front of your kilt. Nothing looks more rediculously feminine than a blushing man slapping at the back of his kilt. Consider it the Finger of God or the Wind of the Spirit and count those who may have glimpsed your **** Blessed. LOL!

Kilt On.

Chris Webb