Panatel VDS Ltd. From the Bermuda Perspectives CD-ROM set, Volume I. They usually have one pocket on each side and one on each side of the bottom. Most people wear them from April to November but they can be worn all year. The only place that periodically has them for a discounted price is the Outlet on Queen Street, in certain waist sizes and discontinued colors only. Given Bermuda's very high humidity for most of the year, and the high temperatures from June to October, they are very practical, very useful, very comfortable - and can also be very elegant. They are in various colors.
Conservative colors are gray, beige or navy blue.
But some prefer orange, pink, green or yellow. Newly arrived expatriate businessmen tend to go for the dark gray at first. Then they graduate to navy, dark green, burgundy, yellow and pink. Only school children wear them in khaki. Unlike Scottish kilts, they are not available beyond Bermuda.