h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been informed (although personally never investigated) that Highland Regiments do not allow underwear under the kilt, and this is checked by a mirror on a stick 'on parade'. Both my Father who served alongside some Highlanders, and my wife who is Scottish have told me this. My wife insists that underwear not worn except Highland dancing/ Highland games by men. And in the old days Men in Kilts not allowed on the top deck of a double decker 'bus to spare all embarrassment

PS Kilt invented by Englishman shock horror

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1982040/Kilts-invented-by-English-in-Lord-Dacres-book.html

The telling blow:
The traditional dress of the Highlanders was in fact a long Irish shirt and a cloak or plaid, he states, and only the higher classes had woven in stripes and colours creating tartan.
“The kilt’s appearance can, in fact, be dated within a few years,” he reveals in the book.
“For it did not evolve, it was invented. Its inventor was an English Quaker from Lancashire, Thomas Rawlinson.”