At this point, Gordon, I must drag out an old joke. Q: Is anything worn under the kilt? A: Nae, Laddie, it's all in perfect working order! I once heard a rumour that a flowing kilt's folds can sucessfully interrupt bullets and prevent them from getting any further past the kilt in question. It reminds me of the sheets I saw put up to prevent long range sniper rounds from entering dwellings in Sarajevo. Spent rounds fired from over 1500 metres away will not get past something simple like a sheet, and I'm told a kilt can have the same effect.
You mean troosers? Far scarier things about scots than their kilts. If there were enough of them, they'd rule the world.
Next thing you know they be pulling bullets and shrapnell out with their silk kilts, silk pantyhose etc. just like the olden days when silk laden horsemen won all the battles.
Bullets have been shown to "protect"...or at least be almost impenetrable...the silk moves out of the bullets way...rather than the bullet peircing the material...now thats smooth.
I can't tell the source without far to much searching, but I remember an autobiography where an English soldier got mixed into a Scot unit and went 'over the top' with them. He commented he'd never go up a ladder after the Scots again, being an awful experience. Wonder why?
I don't doubt it! In WW2 at any rate, conscription meant there were usually a lot of English/Welsh/Irish in Scottish regiments. Didn't wear the kilt except on ceremonial parades by then obviously (Tunis Victory parade a good example).
Actually it was in WW1, wish I could recall the exact book. But I was under the impression that those soldiers were really "Amazons"... Napoleon said that and he was never wrong.(Gordon's at Waterloo)
