Going upstairs while regimental

[ByDand]

Thanks never thought about that until now. Now I'll think about every time I am walking up a flight of stairs or should that be a flight of stares

[Nick]

If it's an enclosed stairwell, I don't worry about it. If it's open on one side of the staircase, I walk on the wall side. There's a staircase at the public library that is completely open, and the risers are perforrated. I take the elevator.

[Tartan Hiker]

My son's first kilted outing was several weeks ago at the Black Watch concert. Our seats were on the second level, up a long flight of stairs. At the bottom of the stairs a bar was set up and lots of folks standing around waiting for drinks. He got to the foot of the stairs and stopped. I asked what was the matter and he just muttered "stairs...why'd there have to be stairs?" He's about 6'3" and all legs, so a flash was a genuine possibility. He asked if I would walk behind him. I reminded him that he had on boxers (15-year-old-shyness) and I was quite regimental. He wasn't moved by this, so up we went. About half way up there was the sound of a drink hitting the floor and other general mayhem. I didn't look back to see what had happened, but he's convinced that I caused the rukus. We'll never know, but he's since spread the story pretty thickly among friends and family, much to my wife's dismay.

[Iolaus]

It will be very difficult for anyone to see anything beyond the mid to upper thigh, going up the stairs, or else women wouldn't climb stairs either! You probably don't want to decend to vigorously though!

[pbpersson]

It will be very difficult for anyone to see anything beyond the mid to upper thigh, going up the stairs, or else women wouldn't climb stairs either!

In high school I used to have a hobby of admiring girl's underwear when they were going up the stairs - and they don't have body parts that hang down.

Just some food for thought...

[Iolaus]

In high school I used to have a hobby of admiring girl's underwear when they were going up the stairs - and they don't have body parts that hang down.

Just some food for thought...

Yes, but women's skirts tend to be much higher. (thank god )

[David Dalglish]

My wife would say " the sights you see when you havent got a gun"

[Magnus Sporrano]

Honestly, when I first started wearing the kilt, I was very American about the whole thing (meaning I was very self-conscious about any sort of exposure).

I had a particularly harrowing experience at work when I was carrying some computer equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars from the door to a truck across the small parking lot between buildings. It was a gusty day and sure enough I felt the pleats lift straight up my back. The front of the kilt came up some but between the load in my arms and my sporran I think (???) that I wasn't frontally exposed. But I just stood there, with this massive expensive load in my arms that I couldn't just drop, my kilt lifted high behind me flapping in the wind, and my co-workers behind me HOWLING with laughter.

A couple of things could have come of that. I could have put the kilt away forever and gone back to pants. Instead I thought a little about it, and what I'm showing off is a lot less impressive than what people see on the internet every day, often inadvertently, and other than curiosity about what is under the kilt I don't think anyone cares to see the two lumps of hairy mashed potatoes that I call a buttocks. And since the Tommy Lee / Pam Anderson honeymoon video has been seen by over half the world's population by now, I don't think I'm going to leave any lasting memory in anyone's mind. I may cause a momentary bit of titillation or amusement in some people but then it's over and forgotten about quickly. Life goes on.

Americans are not just prudish, but culturally we have a very short memory span. Our presidents do things regularly that should require impeachment hearings (presidents from both ends of the political spectrum and everywhere in between) and after a month or so goes by, we forget.

So I just don't care anymore if someone happens to be standing at just the right angle when I'm going up stairs, or if the wind blows and exposes my bottom. If someone gets aroused or excited by that, they have strange taste but I'm glad to make someone's day a little better. If someone is offended by an inadvertent flash, maybe I'm just a little happy to push their boundaries a little and challenge them to stop being so Victorian.

[Kilted KT]

before worrying about flashing someone with your kilt, keep in mind that every day millions of women in skirts and other female non-bifurcated clothes walk up and down millions of stairs.

I wouldn't worry about it.

[Iolaus]

before worrying about flashing someone with your kilt, keep in mind that every day millions of women in skirts and other female non-bifurcated clothes walk up and down millions of stairs.

...in much shorter garments than ours!