Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
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.