It's time to mention the unmentionables: me grundies

[Iain]

:rolleyes:
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.
Now to those of you who think knickers are those trousers that some golfers wear, let me tell you that girls knickers are what schoolgirls in the UK wore under their school skirts. Mothers chose them because back then the only underwear that was available for boys were off white trunks and it was felt that those under a kilt would draw attention when the lad was horsing about while playing or if they were to sit incautiously or should the wind lift the pleats. It was thought that wearing girls knickers of a colour that toned with the main colour of the tartan would make any flash less obvious.
Anyway I was given bottle green knickers to wear with my kilts and I found them so confortable that i have continued to wear similar items under my pleats to this day.
These items can be seen for sale on e-bay just click on to girls gym knickers and see what is under my kilt.
Iain.

[Shay]

You might want to try boxer briefs, guys- I gave a set to my husband and I noticed he always wears them with his kilts now.



from what I can tell, they'd give you more coverage than a pair of tighty whities but still the same feel of movement. Plus they come in different colors, I think I bought his at Tarzhay, I mean, Target, and they had colors from black to blue to plaid to white!
(Oops, I just saw they were mentioned, sorry, didn't mean to repeat!)

[Rob]

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

[Big Paul]

I use black boxer briefs. One of these days I may try Regimental, but for now I'm still getting the hang of it...

[Graham]

I'll vote for black boxer's, loose fitting, gives the freedom, protection and hygeine (sp) we need.

[Iain]

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

Pleased to hear from you Rob and to be able to confirm something from a while back.
Some people seem to think that there was an East West split with the East of Scotland preferring Bottle green knickers and the West Navy blue but i think that it just depended what was available.

Iain

[Rob]

Some people seem to think that there was an East West split with the East of Scotland preferring Bottle green knickers and the West Navy blue but i think that it just depended what was available.

Iain,

Could it have been a case of whichever colour matched the predominant colour in the tartan of the kilt? In this way it would have helped to disguise any accidental flashes of underwear, i.e. a good camouflage colour.

Rob

[Archangel]

:rolleyes:
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.
Now to those of you who think knickers are those trousers that some golfers wear, let me tell you that girls knickers are what schoolgirls in the UK wore under their school skirts. Mothers chose them because back then the only underwear that was available for boys were off white trunks and it was felt that those under a kilt would draw attention when the lad was horsing about while playing or if they were to sit incautiously or should the wind lift the pleats. It was thought that wearing girls knickers of a colour that toned with the main colour of the tartan would make any flash less obvious.
Anyway I was given bottle green knickers to wear with my kilts and I found them so confortable that i have continued to wear similar items under my pleats to this day.
These items can be seen for sale on e-bay just click on to girls gym knickers and see what is under my kilt.
Iain.

no wonder Pat Robertson said such nasty things about us.

When I was younger and worried about my friends playing silly games I would wear flesh coloured bikini just in case. When I got older I would wear black because it was less obvious and now I don't really care. Although, looking around in the past few weeks, now that I am wearing the kilt more often, I can't find that flesh colour anymore.

hmm, here I am near midnight talking about underwear on the net. Gotta get that in focus too.

[sav]

hmm, here I am near midnight talking about underwear on the net. Gotta get that in focus too.

Archangel, you have succeeded in getting me to spit soda all over my computer screen! Well said!

[James]

Reverting to the original question, whilst a firm advocate of the kilt for most occasions: there are some activities related to work etc-where unfortunate as it might seem, trousers are more suitable.

Moving on: I too can remember the schoolgirl knickers, and not thinking twice about it at the time. Amusing though to think that those of us brought up in a traditional way were taught that underwear should be worn-and then to have all the stuff about 'regimental' in respect of adults.

James