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STEVIE wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 9:03 am Hi Tazzmacc,
Glad that you are enjoying wearing your kilts.
You're very right saying that it is all about fun and laughter.
Exactly right, and I'd welcome any comments you may want to.make on the chat next door.
Steve

G'day Steve... I live in the coldest and most mountainous State of Australia ,,,Tasmania ... Some visitors say our climate at times resembles Scotland (not too sure about that ) but in other ways we do via mountains , lakes and rivers .. My kilts are almost exclusively for hiking with my dog/s . My very old Border Collie ,Missy who is nearly 16 . . doesn't come much these days but my Australian Kelpie sheepdog does ..Daisy is 11 y.o. Gone for a few hours sometimes . The sheer joy on a mild to warm day exploring /fishing in a kilt with not too many others around is fantastic and something I cherish .. Not sure whether it keeps me sane or insane but I just love spending time wearing something that all blokes should try at least once . If they did I reckon this wonderful male garnent would take off in popularity in preference to shorts in the warmer months especially ..I truly do..Way more comfortable and healthier than bloody boring shorts eh..

Wearing a kilt year round is not possible where I live. We have already experienced temperatures in the minus 20 Celsius range in December. I don't want to wear tights under it. The whole point of a kilt is the feeling of freedom. I just wear pants, and lined ones at that.

Fleece-lined tights worn under a kilt are quite nice in the cold weather.

I wear my Kilts all year long. I get the minus 20s C too. When the temps get down there I wear a pair of knee high socks (hose). some are wool but most are man made fabric. Still have the joy and freedom the kilt brings and the legs stay warm.
Not suggesting I'm out for a 60 minute hike but for just out running around doing errands it works great.
Lots of them available at reasonable cost on Amazon or Etsy or even most clothing stores.

I find a kilt over thermal tights a lot warmer than trousers, it's just about adding layers as needed. But then I much prefer tights to loose fitting trousers, I hate how trousers crumple up, twist around and make that annoying rubbing sound/feeling between my thighs, and they are even worse with loose long John's under.

I have a thermal skirt I put on over the kilt if the weather is too snowy to keep it dry and wind tight. I'll put on a pair of wool tights over the thermal ones if it's really cold.

We have had a warm winter so far, but we usually have at least over our two weeks of below -20°c. Today we have a blizzard so it's only -8°c but the wind is hard and the snow came in horizontally when I was out with the dogs.

Interesting point here is that the native Scots highlanders were cattle herders when they weren't feuding with their neighbours that is.
They wore "The Great Kilt", every day in all weathers and on all occasions except when going into battle.
For close up hand to hand fighting the thing was a liability, a hindrance and they dropped it. This was adopted by the British military and kilted soldiers were ordered to "go commando".
The Great Kilt was actually used as a makeshift bivouac when they were out and about.
A serious bit of kit and about as far removed from the modern kiltish skirt as one could possibly imagine.
As for wearing tights under a modern kilt, go ahead.
When King George IV visited Edinburgh in 1822, he most certainly did and they were pink.
So you would simply be following a precedent that was set by a member of the British royal family over 200 years ago, quite a pedigree I'd say.
What he may or may not have worn under the tights is mere scurrilous conjecture about the foibles of those of more noble birth.
Thus the legend began!
Steve.

At the time the kilt was adopted for Scottish soldiers in British regiments (usually with the Government tartan now known as "Black Watch"), underwear was not really worn under either kilts or breeches, so there was no need for an "order" to "go commando" (or as kilt-wearers often say, "go regimental").

Myopic Bookworm wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 8:42 am At the time the kilt was adopted for Scottish soldiers in British regiments (usually with the Government tartan now known as "Black Watch"), underwear was not really worn under either kilts or breeches, so there was no need for an "order" to "go commando" (or as kilt-wearers often say, "go regimental").

Hi MB,
I do know that in the Gordon Highlanders, a soldier caught with underpants beneath the kilt could be put on a charge for being "improperly" dressed.
Note too that the Black Watch is only one of many tartans associated with the Scots in the British Army.
There was one quirk, the men who guarded Queen Victoria at Balmoral were required to wear pants and some examples still exist.
They look rather like modern "boxers", but were made in the same cloth as the kilt, ouch!
Steve.

STEVIE wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 8:10 pm

Myopic Bookworm wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 8:42 am At the time the kilt was adopted for Scottish soldiers in British regiments (usually with the Government tartan now known as "Black Watch"), underwear was not really worn under either kilts or breeches, so there was no need for an "order" to "go commando" (or as kilt-wearers often say, "go regimental").

Hi MB,
I do know that in the Gordon Highlanders, a soldier caught with underpants beneath the kilt could be put on a charge for being "improperly" dressed.
Note too that the Black Watch is only one of many tartans associated with the Scots in the British Army.
There was one quirk, the men who guarded Queen Victoria at Balmoral were required to wear pants and some examples still exist.
They look rather like modern "boxers", but were made in the same cloth as the kilt, ouch!
Steve.

Poor John Brown gets it again!