Originally posted by headbang8@Oct 24 2005, 07:13 PM
Um, Mindseye, I think that if you're wearing a dress kilt as a military uniform, you're supposed to "go regimental"...that is, no underwear. I once heard the story of a famous picture of the Scots guard at one of the last changing of the colours in Hong Kong before 1997. A gust of wind from an approachng typhoon revealed his bare ass in all its glory for the photographers. The soldier was reprimanded for what the photo revealed...that his dress socks were uneven.
I don't think the gentleman Alexia spoke of was planning to wear the kilt as a military uniform.
This kilt vendor
(1) says you can wear "whatever you like" underneath the kilt.
This source
(2) mentions that Highland regiments wear their kilts
sans underoos, but that Highland dancers don't.
And this source
(3) says that Queen Victoria
required underpants to be worn with the kilt in her presence. (Then again, this may not be so surprising coming from Queen Victoria!
Finally, this source
(4) states, "For civilians, undergarments is a personal choice, not a regulatory requirement."
I stand by my claim that subkiltian breeches are just fine.