wearing hygienic underwear

[Colin]

I don't know how others are wearing their kilts, but the only time the kilt comes in contact with my skin (the back portion) is when I am sitting down. I can see the arguement about sweat and such on the wool, but honestly the kilt rarely touches skin. If I am wearing my wool kilt, I am likely dressed pretty nice, so why waste that by sitting for long periods of time? If I am wearing the kilt to work, it is likely a PV kilt, so who cares if I need to wash it more often.........it's machine washable

Otherwise the shirt is tucked in and the waistband of the kilt doesn't touch skin. The hang of a traditional kilt doesn't have pleats up against your butt or legs. I prefer regimental 99% of the time, any part of my body that the kilt touches is an area I was taught to keep clean from the toddler years, so I am not sure how underwear is more hygenic. I worry more about the mess on my hands from food or drinks I may have while kilted.

Everyone has their own opinion, that is just mine.

[Yaish]

I dont wear underwear under my kilt, never have. My kilts have never been soiled from my body either, any more so than anything else.

I wear my shirts tucked in so the part where the kilt definately touches the body, at the waistband and just below, are already covered by the shirt.
If I am standing then the rest of the kilt doesnt touch my the portion of my body that underwear would cover anyway.
It touches on the legs but not on the butt or groin. Even sitting you only have perhaps two or three more inches of skin touching the kilt than you would have with most underwear.

Its simply a myth that somehow not wearing underwear is going to make your kilt unhygenic. Not wiping your behind might make your kilt unhygenic, but the underwear doesnt have anything to do with that. You are far more likely to pick up germs on the OUTSIDE of your kilt from touching and sitting on everyday surfaces that you are from the inside of your body.
If you are like most people you probably shower or bath at least daily, and know how to use the bathroom properly. If you dont, then THAT is what makes you unhygenic, not the lack of underwear.

[Kilted KT]

the onlytime I've ever worn underwear with a kilt, it felt far less clean than the hottest day I've seen in any kilt while regimental. The undergarments trab sweat and other such things, keeping it close to the skin. Unless I'm in the woods trying to avoid an under-the-kilt mosquito bite, I'll be regimental.