# RE: What Do Scotsmen Wear Under Their Kilts

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**Created:** [February 8, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-do-scotsmen-wear-under-their-kilts/436785 "2008-02-08T12:53:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-what-do-scotsmen-wear-under-their-kilts/436785/41 "2008-02-29T02:40:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Apollyon]  
I had thought long shirts to have been worn in medieval times (in Western Europe at least) as a form of undergarment, with the long back of the garment pulled forward and then the braies / hosen pulled up to keep things in place.

I’m not entirely sure how this worked with a plaid / great kilt (what with no hose and all)… but understand that that the shirt ends may have been knotted to form a breech clout of sorts.  
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Exactly.

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