Undies under the Kilt

[McClef]

And your underwear will show, gentlemen, (or lack thereof) whatever you may be doing. Simply sitting down on a chair will likely tell people the other side of the room what you are wearing.
Martin

Not if you sit correctly.

Didn't Hamish do a demonstration somewhere?

[Barb T]

I remember reading somewhere about what was "allowed" under the kilt and black briefs were mentioned as the only "allowable" undergarment. I wish I could remeber where I saw that, it struck me as funny though.

May have been in reference to Highland dancers. They are required to wear black or dark-colored dance trunks under their kilts.

Barb

[Nervous Jock]

While an accidental flash may not be porn, there are those who will find it just as offensive, maybe not the kids but the parents.

The PC world takes over, its such a shame, why should we adapt so because someone might find what we do offensive. We have the same rights as anyone else!!

[Nervous Jock]

I have to agree that when you plan on dancing you should put on underwear.

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Rubbish, there seem to be a lot of guy's here who think folk have nothing better to do than look up a Scotsmans kilt

[Kid Cossack]

Precisely.

If the kilt doesn't flash for an adult why should it do for a kid?

I have never seen flashes at ceilidhs either.

Trefor:

My dear fellow, it's all a matter of perspective! I stand a short slice over six feet. My daughters stand, respectively, at about two feet and one meter (over a yard, but just by a bit). They can "see up" things I "look down" at.

Peace and freedom,

[Perldog007]

While an accidental flash may not be porn, there are those who will find it just as offensive, maybe not the kids but the parents. The other thing that strikes me is that you say that a kid might find it amusing, well that might be however they are just as likely be somewhat disturbed.

As for me I try to gauge what it is I will be doing, where I am going that type of thing, then I decide what to wear or not wear, for example I am lucky that I can wear a kilt to work I will not go regimental to work as I do not anyone being disturbed or offended by my choice of clothing.

Here Here! my immediate supervisor is a Female, 190 lbs who can lift anything I can and takes a dim view of flashing in the workplace. I am also the only kilted man in my company, don't want to sully it for anybody else.

Having said that, regimental is more comfortable by an order of magnitude. Be assured that I will never ask or try to ascertain what another kiltsman is doing regarding this topic.

[Kid Cossack]

Rubbish, there seem to be a lot of guy's here who think folk have nothing better to do than look up a Scotsmans kilt

Also a lot of parents. Personally I think Americans are a very prudish people, and would wish that it were not so. As MacWage pointed out, when you're playing jungle gym (or Jungle Jim!) with the bairns, they can crawl up on you, clamber around you, duck under you. My two year old has always loved to run under Momma's skirts or Dad's kilts---she yells "tunnel tunnel" when she does.

If I'm not going to be around children I go free. It's not something I particularly worry about, and I have been to my daughter's school sans briefs but it's an extra bit to think on.

Somehow when Paris Hilton went . . . well I won't call it regimental or the ghosts of the Black Watch from years gone by will rise up and smite me, but when she didn't wear her knickers it was titillating and daring. If it'd been Brad Pitt, say, it would have been gross, disgusting and probably an indication of some perversion.

Not fair, some would say.

To which I'd respond: a fair is where they give pretty pigs prizes before turning them into bacon and ham.

Semper fi, Jock.

[cacunn]

I remember reading somewhere about what was "allowed" under the kilt and black briefs were mentioned as the only "allowable" undergarment. I wish I could remeber where I saw that, it struck me as funny though.

I don't think "allowed" as much as suggested. I remember someone posted a link to a clip from "The Avengers" TV show. Mrs. Peal and Stead were in a fight in a sottish castle, the men were is kilts. At the end of the fight one of the bad guys runs up the stairs and as he crossed the top landing he flashes his tighty whiteys. If they had been black, like Mrs. Peal's leather cover alls (sorry my mind just went to this picture) it would not have been as oblivious to all.

Black undies under the kilt will not flash as much as white under a dark kilt. If you must flash, flash a dark color to confuse anyone who sees.

[demobud]

Aaahhh! The inimitable Mrs. Peel...

I agree it would be better to flash black than tighty whities.

[turpin]

Well, no thread on this oft-repeated subject would be complete without pix, so here ya go.

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This is a day shirt I picked up at the Blairsville games. It's made of monks cloth, a waffle-weave cotton cloth that is thick and heavy but wonderful for warm weather because the slightest breeze wafts through it. And no, the pic is not out of focus, that's just the hair on my arms and legs. Some call me the missing link.