Did Highlanders Wear Underwear? Myth Busting Scottish Kilt History

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• CK

  @ck5922-z2z · 1 year ago (edited)

  People always ask if &nbsp;I have anything under my kilt, I always answer &quot;of course!! I&apos;m wearing socks&quot; 😂

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• SA

  @SamSnoekBrown · 1 year ago

  Old joke: Queen Victoria was inspecting the Highland troops. As she walked down the line, she paused, leaned in toward one lad, and whispered, &quot;Pardon me, solider, but I have always been curious. Is anything worn beneath your kilt?&quot; The Scot stood at attention, kept himself correct, and calmly replied, &quot;No, ma&apos;am, nothing is worn. Everything is in perfect working order.&quot;<br><br>I&apos;ve also heard a recommendation on why the length of the kilt should reach just at the knee: &quot;If you wear your kilt above the kneecap, you&apos;re being quite risqué. If you wear your kilt below the kneecap, you&apos;re just bragging.&quot;

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• ME

  @MexieMex · 1 year ago

  Whenever I&apos;m out kilted up, I always get asked (often asked several times &nbsp;by different people the same night) if I&apos;m wearing my kilt &apos;properly&apos; or not. My response is always the same: &quot;Nothing is worn under the kilt, it&apos;s all in perfect working order!&quot;

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• FR

  @freedoomed · 1 year ago

  I wear underwear and bicycle shorts. &nbsp;Prevents chaffing and gives me a sly pocket for my phone on the shorts.

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• ZO

  @zoes_story · 1 year ago (edited)

  I&apos;m a wheelchair user and went to a concert where a fella was playing the bagpipes in his kilt. &nbsp;Unfortunately I was right up the front at the barrier and a lot lower down than the rest of the audience who were standing. Fella put his leg up on the amp, and I got an eyefull I wasn&apos;t expecting 😂<br>I wish he&apos;d worn a pair of braies or something because I didn&apos;t really want to see a random blokes sweaty tackle swaying in the breeze above my head all evening. &nbsp;😂😂😂

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• SU

  @SuperfluousCornbread · 1 year ago

  American great kilt wearer here, and I have been wearing one since 1996. It was 2001 or 2002 when I was standing at the bar on St. Patrick’s Day ordering a drink when I felt a draft on my right side of my body up my kilt, and when I turned two young ladies were standing at the bar beside of me. The blonde holding up my kilt to see what I was wearing underneath. Because I was used to this kind of bs, I stared her straight in the eyes and said, “See anything you like?” She immediately dropped my kilt and copped an attitude. Before she or I could say anything else, the bartender said, “If this was reversed, he’d be going to jail. Now, get out of my bar!” I laughed, they left, and it was just another adventure of wearing a kilt in a small American city in the early 2000s, lol.

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  @Stormpriest · 1 year ago

  In 1992, I was doing laundry at a laundromat. The one thing I couldn&apos;t wash? That was my kilt. So I&apos;m wearing my kilt and a pair of moccasins and some t-shirt or something the other. I can&apos;t remember which and I see an old lady walk by the door of the laundromat looking in. After about a second and a half she backs up a little bit and she&apos;s standing here looking like she&apos;s having a debate with herself about whether or not to ask &quot; the question&quot;. <br>Is she finally walks in, and tells me? &quot; I&apos;m 65 years old and I&apos;ve never had the courage to ask this before... Are you wearing anything underneath your kilt?&quot; <br>I looked her straight up and down and said with a straight face &quot; yep, my boots&quot; <br>I can proudly say without doing anything nasty that I made an old woman blush.

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• JF

  @JFFaboo · 1 year ago

  Well, Scottish men look so fabulous in their kilts, it is no wonder inquiring minds speculate about what lies beneath.

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• BO

  @boskahunter-hannan4054 · 1 year ago

  When I&apos;m out and about in my kilt, I commonly get some form of the same question, &quot;What are you wearin&apos; under your kilt?&quot; &nbsp;My answer is always, &quot;Boots.&quot;

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• AN

  @anulfadventures · 1 year ago

  Food for thought; Trousers/pants were developed by peoples who traditionally rode horses. ie people from the Steppe. So they wouldn&apos;t be walking.(even so, some of the oldest riding pants have a very complicated crotch). <br>I&apos;ve read some accounts where Highland Soldiers in the 1700s are complaining that the British Government issue kilt is so small they can no longer use it as a blanket for sleeping. They claimed it was the government cutting corners. <br>Lastly, yes... I remember being told in the Highland Regiment I was in to go &quot;Regimental&quot; when wearing the kilt. Even so, there were a few who claimed they were allergic to wool or it was too itchy and wore underwear anyway. &nbsp;<br>Great video by the way. Always enjoy your vids.

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• MA

  @majirayne1063 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Because of hills most then may have had MORE muscular thighs, wearing trousers causes ingrown hairs if hiking so I hike in a skirt and that causes uproar in West USA. I think it&apos;s biomechanical. Kilts. <br>Lowlanders as you say have twigs for legs. Hills make a different body shape.

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