Accidental exposure

[TomFromBama]

My worst moment was standing outside a store with my brother. Some dudes drover by and yelled "Fa_!!" (Not the version that means "cigarette" either) Very mad at that moment. Wasn't embarassed.

Says more about them than you.

[Mel1721L]

I certainly hope that you are OK, as I know what it is like with dogs, both good and bad.

Thanks, only my dignity was hurt.

[Mel1721L]

Last time I related a true story of dogs and kilts I wound up with a red card so gonna pass on this...

Also glad you're okay. There have been times when I was wearing underwear with the kilt where something totally unexpected happened and the kilt flew up but I was glad to at least have underwear on....accidently exposing tartan boxers doesn't seem much worse than the young men in low slung pants intentionally exposing their tartan boxers....

It may be worse exposing the fact you are wearing boxers. Especially Iif you were in Scotland.

[Mel1721L]

Yep, wearing the kilt means you suddenly have a new appreciation for how the wind moves around objects. Certain areas between buildings can be wind tunnels, and other areas can have strange vortices that make the pleats fly.

Personally, though, I've never had the problem of "exposure" whilst wearing a traditional kilt. Even in 45-mph gusts that were blowing over tables and making vendor tents strain at their moorings (as it were), the weight of a full-yardage kilt doesn't seem to be an issue. Yes, the pleats will move around some, and may even lift up in a bellows-style dance. And spectators may get a view of my upper thigh, and perhaps even a cheek or two. But all the movement of the kilt is around the pleated sides and back. The aprons don't tend to move, especially with a sporran in place. So I never worry about exposure from wind. If I'm ever in winds high enough for that to happen, I'm thinking I'll have other concerns that outweigh it.

Falling down, though, is something that always scares me in a kilt. The one time I fell -over-teakettle in a kilt, thankfully, was out on a hiking trail where the only witness was my wife and her horse. She laughed so hard she cried. And if I'm honest, I think her horse laughed too.

I wear the lightest kilts I have in this heat. Not that I have many.

I love the image oh your horse laughing, puts me in mind of Mr. Ed.

I have had a few moments when the kilt has done parachute impersonations, but luckily there's been no one around.

[Mel1721L]

My worst moment was standing outside a store with my brother. Some dudes drover by and yelled "Fa_!!" (Not the version that means "cigarette" either) Very mad at that moment. Wasn't embarassed.

In the UK a fag is a cigarette but I know the American meaning. To me they just displayed their ignorance, though I'd have probably been angry too.

[CeilidhDoc]

I wore my kilt to the Tesla factory tour when I picked up my car. Part of the tour involved walking up a steep flight of steps with metal grating and then walking over a sort of metal catwalk and then down the other side. One can see up through the grating from the factory floor, and I am sure that any of the group members behind me on the stairs that looked up would have had a surprising view as well.

Not horrible, but that was probably my worst exposure moment. On the plus side, I got a ton of thumbs ups from the employees working in the factory for seeing a man in a kilt there.

I am a strictly regimental kilt wearer though (for why you can read my post on another thread about my experience in St. Andrews) so I am sure someday I may have worse despite my best efforts.

Slàinte!

[McMurdo]

One night out at a pub a drunk know it all gent was talking about his military experience and how they were always regimental. He then decided to check if I was in front of 20 or so people mixed girls and guys. I was regimental at the time. He held the apron up and I then told him to let go of my kilt. These days if I know there will be children around I cover up otherwise I gage each situation as they come up.

[Nathan]

I always thought I'd be more embarrassed being seen to be wearing underwear with the kilt than I would to have people see the dangly bits the Almighty gave me but that's just me and my military brainwashing.

[CeilidhDoc]

Ironically my wife is ot a huge fan of me wearing the kilt. And not because she does not like the look. The problem is the other lasses that also like the look, then get drunk, and decide they can go ahead and lift it. Usually this is done from the rear though, so not as much of a big deal. And as our peers have aged along with us, this happens less and less.

It always struck me as strange though that women would start doing things that would be frank sexual harassment if a man did it to them. I have not yet had a drunk male lift my kilt, but I can see how annoying that situation was for you.

I suppose that the effects of overindulgence do not spare either sex in terms of increasing the odds of bad behavior.

Slàinte

[Mel1721L]

I wore my kilt to the Tesla factory tour when I picked up my car. Part of the tour involved walking up a steep flight of steps with metal grating and then walking over a sort of metal catwalk and then down the other side. One can see up through the grating from the factory floor, and I am sure that any of the group members behind me on the stairs that looked up would have had a surprising view as well.

Not horrible, but that was probably my worst exposure moment. On the plus side, I got a ton of thumbs ups from the employees working in the factory for seeing a man in a kilt there.

I am a strictly regimental kilt wearer though (for why you can read my post on another thread about my experience in St. Andrews) so I am sure someday I may have worse despite my best efforts.

Slàinte!

I think I'd have made sure I was at the back of the queue! I'll have to look up your other incident. I can't see the point of wearing a kilt unless it is regimental.