I obviously don't know what skirts you wear, Shay, but most women's short skirts don't have as many pleats, and are cut closer to the leg, so there's less "free" material to catch the wind. Those skirts with more material tend to be longer. Kilts just have so much material in the pleats that when they get going there's no stopping them - once the wind has caught them it's very easy for them to rise up, since the pleats just unfold and spread out.

That said, I've only had one or two real "blowups" - and I just laughed, and held my hands down at my sides from then on. One was in a very windy valley near a busy road, so that when cars drove by they'd create a little eddy storm that channeled right along the building I was standing next to. The next was my fault, as I walked across a subway grille in the street just as a train was going by beneath me. Oops!

Andrew.