wind

[BEEDEE]

He's right, you know.

If you get to Chicago, walk across the Michigan Avenue Bridge*. The updraft can be positively outrageous and it's a true test of whther or not you can maintain your composure.

Best

AA

Did just that last week! A strategically placed left hand just over the pleats held them down well.

Brian

[McMurdo]

For now do a Marilyn Monroe, and when you can get a heavier kilt.

You could try to strut and pretend not to notice.

[SFCRick]

Look straight ahead and act as if nothing happened.

He is correct, just add a little smile and continue

[pbpersson]

You'll learn to be extra alert at the edges of buildings, entering a building, standing beside a vehicle - especially a truck.

Ron

It doesn't get windy in Phoenix very often.....but on windy days I have done some tests and my Toyota Camry will do it every time. Well....okay....one time it wasn't a test. I got out of the car and was standing there checking to see how much money I had before going into the store and along came a gust of wind!

Now....can someone tell me when I go back out to the car with the groceries how I am supposed to carry the groceries AND open the car door WHILE holding down my kilt? I don't have that many hands!

For years I thought it was just hilarious when this happened to women and I always wanted a front row seat for the event. Now that it is happening to me it's a totally different experience.


Phil

[GG]

i just walked outside in my kilt to walk to the cash point and a big gust of wind blew up my kilt lol showing my back side lol so i went in and put some trousers on.

what do you normaly do to avoid that?

You mean this situation?



Hands descretely over pleats and hope it will do.

Greg

[SteveB]

just keep on going.. had a train come into the tube station and raise mine and the skirt of the woman next to me on the platform. we just entered the carriage as if nothing had happened.

[Bugbear]

Didn't mean that., NightHawk.

[chimera]

Eating baked beans and oranges may be the problem.

[Drillagent]

That happened to me at the Richmond VA Highland Festival. My teenage daughter was behind me and squealed. She walked behind me the rest of the day with her hands out to block it.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

KILT WEIGHTS?

Years ago I was invited to spend the week-end at an army pal's a wee shooting lodge just outside of Blairgowerie. We were about the same size and he loaned me a kilt for the weekend, one of those heavy, 18oz regimental ones. (He was in the TAs in an A&S Btn for all you military types) anyhow, there was a string of small round fishing weights stitched to the hem of the apron, and in the corner of the apron there were a couple of heavy washers sewn into the hem as well. This did a pretty good job of keeping the kilt down, although the back was still subject to the ocassional "back draft".