Sorry to come to this one rather late.

Over the years I've become aware of myriad views as to what should be under the kilt, which leads to the one view-that there are no rules-it is entirely up to the individual.

Variations range from those kilt material shorts that makers used to provide-do they still do so?

Regular male underwear.

The comment in MacDonald Fraser's book [about his time in the army and as an officer in a highland regiment] about the Drum Major wearing regimental sports shorts under his kilt.

I know regular kilt wearers who do in fact wear a slip/petticoat under their kilt-and others who swear by nothing-and every possible combination in between.

There is too the long highland shirt reach to just above the knees which some swear by.

Too in my younger days men's shirts were much longer-so covering the vital areas and so obviating the need for underwear.

I'll try and find it-but I recall reading a book about highland dress many years ago, by a purported expert which suggested that supportive male underwear was advised.

Too the lining built into a kilt is to support the material-and protect the waist area from perspiration.

So I do not think, based upon too many years of wearing the kilt, that there are in fact any rules: in fact those who go on about wearing the kilt in the correct way, are really rather boring, and probably not kilt wearers or at least not regular ones.

Rather I would suggest that it is up to each and every kilt wearer to make up their own mind, in accord with their own views in respect of comfort hygiene, and of course protecting the kilt from such things as perspiration.

Certainly based upon my own experience it would be wrong to be critical of another man's entirely personal choice-for it is the wearers business and theirs only.

James