Quote Originally Posted by Joshua View Post
One of my clients, upon finding out I was a games athlete, told me she her parents were from Scotland, and her grandparents still lived there.

She said at her brother's wedding, her father (born in Scotland) was the only person not wearing a kilt... in his words he had to wear one in school and he'd never wear "that itchy thing" again. Her grandfather and uncles from Scotland wore them, as well as her American-born brother (who wore his dad's hand-me-down for the wedding).

Funny though, her family was from Glasgow and she's a late-20's/early-30's gal. I'm guessing her parents would have been in school no earlier than the late 50's through 60's. Were kilted schools common in the lowlands at that time?
My father (born 1939) wore an ex-Army Black Watch kilt to school in the suburbs of Glasgow (Lanarkshire) during the early to mid 1950's. The school which was a normal state senior secondary school (the same one I attended almost 25 years later) had a uniform with trousers and a blazer which had been suspended due to the war but with rationing and shortages it wasn't reintroduced again until the later 50's. My father has no psychological scars and still wears his kilt. He was influential in my kilt wearing education.

His kilt wasn't school uniform just how some boys were dressed at the time, he says my granny (originally from Macduff and known for her thriftiness) bought him the kilt as it was a bargain. At the time he had a 'better' civilian kilt for Boy Scouts and Church. My father's first pair of adult long trousers were part of his Merchant Navy Uniform when he went to sea as an apprentice/Deck Officer cadet in 1956.

The only school I know of who have the kilt as a uniform is the Princess Victoria military school in Dunblane. Previously my father had briefly attended it's sister school, The Duke of York's military school in Dover, Kent (1951/52). At the time pupils wore battledress with the cap badge of their father's Regiment or Corps.