Quote Originally Posted by Iain
Back when I was a lad growing up in Scotland we never had a problem with what we should wear under our kilts. We wore what our mothers gave us to wear and in my case and the case of many of my contemporaries what mothers gave us was schoolgirls bottle green or navy blue knickers.
Iain,

Your post brought back a long-lost memory to me. When I was at Grammar School in Devon in the late 1950s, a new boy joined my class, who had a pronounced Scottish accent. As usual when anyone new joined we were eager to find out who he was and where he was from. Although we had assumed he was a Scot, it turned out that he had been born in Devon, but had been taken off to Scotland at the age of four, when his father (who had been a manager at the Devonport Naval Dockyard) was transferred to the Dockyard at Rosyth. He told us that he had attended a private school there, where a part of his school uniform was a kilt. Of course the usual question of what he wore under his kilt soon came up, and he freely admitted that he had worn navy blue gym knickers. At the time most of us didn’t believe him and thought he was teasing us, but now that I have read your post, I realise that he had almost certainly been telling the truth.

When his father had been transferred back to Devonport Dockyard, he had been placed at my school, where trousers formed part of his school uniform. If my memory serves me correctly, he stayed at my school for a couple of years before his father was again transferred to a new post in Wales. I wonder what his new Welsh school pals thought of a Devonian with a Scottish accent coming to live in Wales. All this was long before I first wore a kilt myself.

Rob