Sitting in a car, and pleat gathering...

[TartanTangent]

Och! You boys. Just ask any lady of your acquaintance how to sit down in a skirt & apply it to a kilt.
If you have a walking stick, run it down the length of your kilt (almost to the hem) as you get in the car. If you don't have a walking stick, just use your arm.

[Carolina Kiltman]

Glen, as long as you don't mind sitting about an inch higher, then go for it. For me, I will stick with my 1982 Volvo 242's heated (yes, Robert) leather seats... ;-)
-J

I need to sit an inch or higher in my pickup, (the leg room is a bit short, and sitting higher solves the problem.) There is plenty of headroom, and currently I am using a kitchen chair cushion, which is a nuisance. So where does one get such a swivel?

[sirdaniel1975]

If you drive a small economy car like myself; the best thing that works for me is to use my kilt belt to sweep the pleats. I have found it works really awesome with knife pleats.

I have short arms and small hands.... The above works best for me!

[Tommy Hunt]

If you drive a small economy car like myself; the best thing that works for me is to use my kilt belt to sweep the pleats. I have found it works really awesome with knife pleats.

I have short arms and small hands.... The above works best for me!

Is that sweep the pleats after you've gotten in or as you're getting in. Sounds difficult to me.

[Tommy Hunt]

http://www.comforthouse.com/swivseatcus.html

http://www.seniorshops.com/swivelseat.html

These might be a solution.

Yeah this might be a good solution. Anyone ever tried it?

The towel solution sounds doable as well.

[staticsan]

I have to say, I don't have a problem with mangled pleats when sitting in a car. Maybe it's because the driver's seat is on the right in Aussie-land which means the kilt pleats aren't going the wrong direction... Perhaps that's the problem with US cars... :-D

Wade.

[fudgeman]

There's a simple solution to maintaining your pleats while getting into a car. Simply keep a large towel in the car to use for this purpose.

Before you slide in, wrap the towel around your kilt... making sure that the pleats are hanging straight first. Center your "backside" in the towel, then pull the sides to the front. By wrapping it tightly as you get in, the pleats maintain their form and you don't MANGLE them while driving. When you sit down, just release the sides of the towel and sit on it while you drive. No need to pull it out and take the chance of messing-up what you've just tried to prevent!

This is the ONLY solution that I've had for my thinner material kilts. The thicker, wool ones can benefit from the treatment too.

Wow, just what I needed. As a relatively new kiltie, I've been struggling with this problem as I try and get into my Tundra. With the higher seats (and no leather ) I've been frustrated. Gotta go get me an appropriate towel as my newest kilt accessory!

[English Bloke]

You could get one of those "See you Jimmy style" Kilt Towels that's causing all the fuss on the Royal Mile at the moment. Passing motorists wouldn't be any the wiser if you had one of those...

I agree with Staticsan; the right hand drive car is the answer, for the reasons he describes... I don't have a problem either. In fact my pleats benefit from a good pressing with my lardy ar**!

[george7]

I just gather the pleats up the same way I do when I sit anywhere else. Cloth seats, but they sit upright. Toyota Echo

[Highlander31]

I have a '64 series land rover. I climb up first then in. Once I'm in I lift up and sweep the pleats.