Video Clip: Sweeping the pleats

[Retro Red]

Excellent video!

It's great to get confirmation from the Kilt King that I've been sweeping correctly.

It's also great to see & hear Hamish since, regrettably, we were unable to meet with him in Palm Springs this last weekend.

I hope you had a great time in "the colonies," Hamish. We've missed ya...
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[KiltedCodeWarrior]

RR,

Thanks for bringing this back to the top. I was missing Ham's posts, but now I have had my "Ham fix" hearing his voice on the video!

[Rusty]

guid oan ya Hamish

[David Dalglish]

Nice one Hamish

[MacConnachie]

Yes, thank you Hamish. Nicely done!

Do you have any variations on this for getting into automobiles? That's where I typically have my greatest difficulty. It's almost as if I must get into the seat first, then brace my feet against the floorboards and my upper back against the top of the car seat, then arch my back and readjust the pleats under me before sitting. It's normally not too bad, but where I get most crossed up is usually those days when I'm on the edge of running late for a pipe band gig, and I don't have time to get out and get back in "properly."

MacConnachie

[motorman4life]

Ham, no mention of the "swing" in your video. It is much more pronounced in the double handed sweep, but it gets the pleats going in the right direction at the critical moment and the sweep is really just "batting cleanup" as we say here in America (it is a baseball thing).

The "swing" is an important component that becomes second nature over time.

As for the car, I usually get my feet placed correctly and as I raise my right foot up (for a left door entry), I swing and do a 1 hand sweep. I'm not worried so much about flashing in the car as the door blocks an views, I'm more concerned with keeping the pleats flat and not pressing wrinkles in my kilt with my hot and steamy ***!

[Hamish]

Ham, no mention of the "swing" in your video. It is much more pronounced in the double handed sweep, but it gets the pleats going in the right direction at the critical moment and the sweep is really just "batting cleanup" as we say here in America (it is a baseball thing).

The "swing" is an important component that becomes second nature over time.

Somehow I missed this post and I apologise for appearing to have ignored you Mark.

You are correct on that one; there is an element of 'swing' that comes into sitting in a kilt - more so when both one's hands are otherwise occupied. That is possibly a matter for another short video clip! Watch this space!

As for the car, I usually get my feet placed correctly and as I raise my right foot up (for a left door entry), I swing and do a 1 hand sweep. I'm not worried so much about flashing in the car as the door blocks an views, I'm more concerned with keeping the pleats flat and not pressing wrinkles in my kilt with my hot and steamy ***!

Agreed! Flashing really is not an issue when entering or leaving a car. One might think that it would be, but it is not.

Until I got my latest car, a few months ago, I always sat on a padded 'turntable' cushion designed for the elderly and disabled! With that, I slid straight back onto the seat from the open door, raised my legs and swung them around into the footwell - the cushion turning with me and my pleats - and everything would be in place! Now, however, with my new car, the design of the seat is so shaped that the 'turntable' will not fit it and so I've been obliged to dispense with it. Instead, I sit back onto the seat and swing my legs in, arch my back, lifting my bottom from the seat, and sweep the pleats with both hands as I lower myself into the seat. It is important to get the pleats lying as flat and as much in place as possible, before setting out on a journey.

[northernsky]

The only person I ever saw sitting down in a kilt-like garment when I was a youngster was my mum. I learned the single handed sweep from her. Imagine my surprise when a kilted fellow accused me of sitting like a 'lady'. I asked him, how else do you sit in a kilt. He replied 'with the wrinkles"!