Black light reactive kilt - Anyone done this?

[St. Amish]

I went mini golfing at a black lit, monster themed golf course a few months ago. Tartan does not react to the black light so much as the lint you were unaware of.

[WClarkB]

I remember the 60's,...sort of...

For reference sake will we be referring to that decade as the "recent past" OK?

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Our local bowling alley has laser bowling. On Saturday my husband and his friends were doing "Scotch Doubles" so he wore his kilt. MacPherson actually looks pretty cool under black lights because of the double white stripes and the yellow would show up when he was directly under the light.

--Chelsea McMurdo--

[wildrover]

If there's anything phosphorescent in your laundry detergent (ie "makes your whites whiter and colors brighter", because they literally do in sunlight), your clothing will glow a bit. Not sure how wool works, but if you're able to wash your kilt with normal detergent (I just got my kilt, so I haven't washed it yet, and anyway, no white), you'll get the effect.

We used to paint stuff on the walls with Tide, for parties...easy to clean, smells good, nobody notices when the lights are on (ie the landlord ).

-S

[ForresterModern]

Under the black light at a local shopping mall in an otherwise dark space, my MacNeil wool tank on ancient colours appears as mostly white with some design, but not plaid. I was wearing a white fitted Polo shirt and oatmeal hose. The hose turned an off white and the top was ...white. A picture taken of it looked like I was wearing white fishnet stockings and a white patterned knee length gathered dress, with a wide belt.
Slainte

Part of the effect in the camera may have been an artifact of the way modern digital cameras work. When you turn a camera on it does an automatic check called the white balance, and if it was turned on where the blacklight was already on it may very well have had difficulty getting true white settings, thereby throwing off the registration of colors and their subsequent appearence in the picture. Especially if what you saw with your eyes was different from what showed up in the picture.

[SteveB]

The problem with wearing something is that unless a mirror or reflective object is around, you depend on others and/or the photo to see it. I am not up on the wizz bang of mobile telephone cameras, even though my mobile supposedly has a camera, I have never bothered to figure how to work it. According to another gent visiting the display at the same time as I, the photo was pretty accurate as to what he saw.

The particular display was a temporary set up to promote a "scary" video. There were a lot of special effects going on as you walked through. Most of the visitors that went through got some kind of a scare out of it. The above mentioned gent and I were laughing on the way out past the sales table. The promoter of the video asked us why we had no fear factor. I just answered that live incoming mortars beat a video any day in that department, the young gent said likewise. He had just returned from the Sandbox. He asked me where I got the experience to which I answered Vietnam. We got an even bigger laugh.

BTW, he may join us as he will be getting his kilt real soon.

Slainte.

[ChattanCat]

I'm thinking that there is very little opportunity to "glow" under a black light. I used to have some reflective tape, as seen on some running shoes, shirts, etc. Now if we sew or stick onto a kilt... hmmm... then you could be seen, for miles, crossing any street with street or head lights.

[haxtonhouse]

I went mini golfing and the white stripe in my wool kilt was glowing! it was pretty cool.

[OC Richard]

The ticket would be one of those tartans designed for Highland dancers that's half white, half one colour, in a big simple pattern.

And the pure white hose that most Pipe Bands wear.

[jeremy j starche]

Every time I think I come up with a good idea, either you guys here at XMarks have done it, or my pipe instructor wrote a paper about it in the dark ages ;)

Still... I am able to borrow on the experiences of other people and it may help guide my thoughts when I choose my next kilt.

Thanks everyone.