Kilts in the Wind Pictures

**JRB** · 9th February 08, 06:24 PM

Did your sporran blow away?

**Tommie** · 9th February 08, 06:49 PM

Well I have a pic in the wind but you will never, never,never ever see it here.

**Joel** · 9th February 08, 06:53 PM

Thankfully, no pictures (and you'll be glad, too)...but one night about two weeks ago, we had +50 MPH winds...very strong winds...and so I thought to myself, Experimentation time! So, I threw on my kilt and ran outside. It didn't do too much - even though my kilt is a lightweight one - until I turned to walk back in...that's when the wind caught the pleats just right and blew it striaght up. If anyone was around, they would have learned the answer to "the question."

And great photo, TB. Best laugh I've had all day.

**Riverkilt** · 9th February 08, 07:05 PM

Ham,

That sir, is a beautiful picture. That should be on the kiltmaker's website if they have one.

There is sooooo much more to the beauty of kilts than hanging with perfectly aligned pleats. Kilts look so beautiful dancing in the wind!

Ron

**ANGELMAN** · 9th February 08, 08:22 PM

Guys I Love The Pics. Tattoo I Love The Humor.

**BoldHighlander** · 9th February 08, 08:53 PM

Great pic's everyone, though TB's is a classic & a new standard that I think will take some time to be equaled!

Originally Posted by BoldHighlander

Yeah, but Ron the wind isn't always that kind.
Remember the one I posted of the Black Watch flag ceremony in Hong Kong?

Okay, here's the pic -- originally posted on this thread about wind:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/w...x.html?t=33782

not sure what kind of tail wind they had going on

**GMan** · 9th February 08, 11:19 PM

Well blow me away!

**Bugbear** · 10th February 08, 12:52 AM

Hear no evil; see no evil; um...

We'll... just take the pic of Sylvana out then... For Ron's sake...

**Edinburghkiltie** · 10th February 08, 03:25 AM

The difficulty with this topic is ensuring the material is 'U' rated, but thankfully the weight of a traditional Scottish kilt and the position and weight of a good quality sporran ensures that, save a hurricane, the wearer can be protected especially if he is alert and uses his hands to keep the pleats in line - as is the case in the picture above.
Rugby trips to Paris can be alarming with Metro undercurrents and have trapped the unwary (including myself) - as indeed did the subway updaft to a pipeband recently that was captured on film. The problem with the pipeband was that their hands were occupied playing their instruments so they were defenseless. It was an amusing sight. Another classic (like the Hong Kong pic) is the piper on a North Sea Oil Rig playing the pipes - he is mid Atlantic with a force 8 blowing and it would take a skilled wearer to avoid the embarrassment that beset him. For day to day wear however the kilt thankfully is secure and it a wonder of construction.

**BoldHighlander** · 10th February 08, 03:43 AM

Originally Posted by Edinburghkiltie

Another classic (like the Hong Kong pic) is the piper on a North Sea Oil Rig playing the pipes - he is mid Atlantic with a force 8 blowing and it would take a skilled wearer to avoid the embarrassment that beset him. For day to day wear however the kilt thankfully is secure and it a wonder of construction.

Indeed!
I recently ran across that classic, unfortuantly it would take a bigger 'black box' to censor that picture

Oh, and by the way...

...from the far nw corner of Washington state!