Guys aren't the only ones...

[tarpondboy]

I wore my kilt out last saturday night , I was asked about 20 times (by women) what I wore under my kilt, some even tried to lift it up..

[Phogfan86]

...some even tried to lift it up.

Good gravy.

To paraphrase one of my favorite answers to The Question, nice girls ask; Canadian girls find out for themselves.

Or should that be, "find oot for themselves?"

[SteveB]

It is not restricted to Nova Scotia, far more inquiries while I was visiting in Ottawa, than here in Boston, where I and other kilties, live.

[Stratherrick]

It absolutely DOES happen in Scotland!

I've never been kilted north of the border, especially in the capital, without being asked, especially in pubs. Looking back, I'd say 33% just ask, 33% decline to find out after being invited and 33% take up the offer or just wade in without even asking!

Hen night parties of English girls/women are the worst/best, depending upon whether I'm in the mood to have my bum, or anything else, felt!

Slainte

Bruce

[Richard]

A couple of years back I was in my Kilt and a guy came up to me and said
"have you got your trews on"
I said "pardon"
he said again "have you got your trews on"
I just ignored him and walked away, but he followed me saying "your not saying what's under your kilt then <shakes head>, poor fellow thought that "Trews" were a Scots underwear

[jeremy j starche]

I've found "The Question" tends to happen more often around festivals, and the more beer that is poured the more likely people of either gender are likely to simply find out for themselves by exploring.

The more polite the function, the less likely "The Question" is. I've ne'er been asked at church or at a play, for instance.

Best I can tell, my niece was ne'er asked -- which Good Thing because she was somewhere between 11-16 when we did things together. (Then she got a life an interest of her own.)

[Tiny]

Good gravy.

To paraphrase one of my favorite answers to The Question, nice girls ask; Canadian girls find out for themselves.

Or should that be, "find oot for themselves?"

Hmmmm... I might have to move to Canada

[ziggy]

Ok here's what I figure. You walk into a room with a kilted person. Everyone in there had that question pop up in their inner monologue. Someonoen non kilted realizes this. Figures the one person must expect at least one person to ask. So they do it. That makes it easier for the next person.

At highland games, or when substantial liquor is served, this whole process is faciliated by an apparent lack of required class or with alcohol being a great social lubriant, the kilted do not escape.

You just have to stop in think...it's like deep down they think you'll lift your kilt and there'sll be a soft light, and they'll see the Meaning of Life or something.

Yes? No? ;)

Ian

[Nighthawk]

Ok here's what I figure. You walk into a room with a kilted person. Everyone in there had that question pop up in their inner monologue. Someonoen non kilted realizes this. Figures the one person must expect at least one person to ask. So they do it. That makes it easier for the next person.

At highland games, or when substantial liquor is served, this whole process is faciliated by an apparent lack of required class or with alcohol being a great social lubriant, the kilted do not escape.

You just have to stop in think...it's like deep down they think you'll lift your kilt and there'sll be a soft light, and they'll see the Meaning of Life or something.

Yes? No? ;)

Ian

Like Old Greg... Ick...

[Morris at Heathfield]

A couple of years back I was in my Kilt and a guy came up to me and said
"have you got your trews on"
I said "pardon"
he said again "have you got your trews on"
I just ignored him and walked away, but he followed me saying "your not saying what's under your kilt then <shakes head>, poor fellow thought that "Trews" were a Scots underwear

If anyone had asked me in 1989 what the Scotsman wears under his kilt, I would have answered "trews". If anyone had asked me what trews were—at least in this context—, I would have answered that they were shorts made of the same sort of tartan as the kilt. I don't recall today where I received this information, but I must have read it somewhere. Not online, of course, because I was unaware of the Internet in 1989.