What to wear under your kilt

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In the 1920s and 1930s "kilt drawers" were sold along with kilts by the Scottish kiltmaking firms.

Actually since the early 19th century, when they became part of officers' uniform, civilian tailors supplied tartan (under)trews automatically - they were just part of what this site would call TCHD. They were required for Court Dress and the records from Balmoral show that all Queen Victoria's gillies and other servants were supplied with them along with their kilts. Such undertrews began to go out of fashion in the 1960s.
The private soldier's practice of wearing nothing was to save laundry on the march but that ceased to apply during WW1 - my father was there! In Scotland nowadays few men wear the kilt with nothing underneath. Those who do tend to be in one of 3 groups
- they are in the "tartan army" i.e. they support Scotland at international football matches. Similarly for rugby.
- they wear the kilt very rarely so this adds frisson to the adventure!
- they follow some variety of minority sexual inclination

Alan