Going Regimental?

[TheOfficialBren]

The late Duke of Windsor used to button his underpants to his trousers. Four small buttons on the inside of the waistband of the kilt and four buttonholes in the corresponding positions on the underpants should stop any slippage.

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Regards

Chas

Seriously?!



HRH's drawers were buttoned-down? Out of curiosity (and with all do resoect) WHY and HOW do we know that?! Don't post without proof!

Chas, you are a font of interesting knowledge, my friend. I enjoy your posts.

[Chas]

Seriously?!



HRH's drawers were buttoned-down? Out of curiosity (and with all do resoect) WHY and HOW do we know that?!

Chas, you are a font of interesting knowledge, my friend. I enjoy your posts.

It came to light after he died. He was a snappy, but fussy dresser. One thing he didn't like was his underpants bunching up (caused ridges and ruined the line of his trousers) - this cured the problem.

Regards

Chas

[Chas]

Something I have truly never understood. If men cry FREEDOM , why, oh why do they then insist in binding up their danglers?

All the types of underpants often mentioned are very good at keeping everything under control, but by doing that they take away all freedom.

I freely admit to wearing Boxers (not boxer briefs). They give coverage but more importantly NO support. It is like wearing nothing at all.

Modesty protected and all the FREEDOM I could want.

Really, who wants to wear a g-string?

Regards

Chas

[TheOfficialBren]

It came to light after he died. He was a snappy, but fussy dresser. One thing he didn't like was his underpants bunching up (caused ridges and ruined the line of his trousers) - this cured the problem.

Regards

Chas

Oic. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. It was actually a very clever solution. His tailor gets props from me for thinking outside the box.

[neloon]

Oic. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. It was actually a very clever solution. His tailor gets props from me for thinking outside the box.

Bren,
(Post#13)
Maybe not all that outside the box. Remember that elasticated waistbands appeared only in the 1920s. Prior to that, if drawers were not part of some kind of "union suit", they had loops at waist level through which the then ubiquitous braces (?=US "suspenders", Scots=galluses) that held up the breeks were passed. This style was still around in my young day (1940s). Thus it was that shirt tails always had to be "tucked in"!
Alan

[Runningkrazy]

Thanks everyone who has made this thread very interesting and informative. Once we got past the little fits and such. As a newcomer I thank you

[AJBryant]

It came to light after he died. He was a snappy, but fussy dresser. One thing he didn't like was his underpants bunching up (caused ridges and ruined the line of his trousers) - this cured the problem.

I really don't understand how this works, and yet I find myself dying to know.

What's wrong with me? (Maybe if my undies didn't bunch up, too...)


Tony

[Kiltedjohn]

If there were a "dislike" button, I would use it!

[Runningkrazy]

Commando or its just not right for me

[Phil]

Am I alone in wondering what is the fascination on this website with discarding underwear? Is it a little frisson that Americans enjoy? A soupcon of naughtiness that their Pilgrim fathers denied them? Is it something about the nation that labels their underwaer "intimate apparel" or talks about toilets as "restrooms" - I mean who goes to the toilet for a rest? Perhaps it is just a simple pecadilllo so that they can feel naughty without others knowing by not wearing underwear. Who knows but it is certainly a pervasive thread throughout this site. Historically underwear was not generally worn so it is probably correct that Highlanders a few centuries ago didn't wear any. Nowadays is a bit different, however. You could possibly be arrested for displaying your wares openly, particularly where children might be involved, so why the fascination by some here in doing so. Kilt- wearing is not a license to expose yourself, despite what some here would like to propose. So please can we not perpetuate this "commando","regimental" or whatever excuse for simple indecent exposure.