Thank you Green Boots...Many of my reports of Kilt wearing School Boys came from gentlemen in the Edinburgh and Glasgow areasgreenboots wrote:I think there are still one or two schools where boys wear kilts, but judging by their rarity I suspect it is only “occasion wear”, whereas it is still fairly common to see girls in uniform with kilts, at least in Edinburgh.
who were at school just after the War....Most of these gentlemen would probably now be over 80 years old......
Some of the boys started wearing hand me down Kilts from other family members when they were four or five years old.....
These Kilts lasted for years.....other boys took up the option of wearing The Kilt as part of their school uniform , worn with a tweed jacket
for senior school......From the information I received possibly only 25% of a class would take up the Kilt for School option.....
We must remember that 400 families transfered from The Clyde To the South Coast of England in the 1950's with The Admiralty....
Then The Atomic Energy opened a new site in The same area of Dorset......Some of the Staff moved from an Atomic Energy establishment
in Scotland........The Caledonian Society was still active in the area 5 years ago....
One of my friends came from an English Family who married in India ...Moved to Gibralta and then to Scotland and is now still working
in Cornwall......Areas with Defense Activity become a big melting pot for an International Community...........weeladdie