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View Poll Results: Where do you wear your kilt?

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  • Fully traditional: 8+ yards of tartan and up where they're been for centuries.

    42 40.78%
  • Something modern in style and/or fabric but high like they're supposed to be.

    36 34.95%
  • Tartan front and back but the hips are doin' the carryin'.

    6 5.83%
  • Leading edge modern and that means non-tartan and low-rise.

    3 2.91%
  • Somehow you've missed me.

    16 15.53%
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  1. #1
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    Where to where a kilt.

    In these days of low-rise hipsters, it's a bit of a surprise to realize that a kilt is supposed to sit high on the waist. Even many non-traditionals, although there are modern kilts which are "low-rise".

    So what's everyone's preference and why? And how did you adjust to the traditional waist?

    Wade.

  2. #2
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    I like the high rise on kilt. Right up to me ribs is the best place.

    Works like a back brace and makes me feel so much better when I wear it. Lot less pain.

    Low rise kilts is nae a good idear. Plumbers crack is nae something we need in the kilted side of life.

  3. #3
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    I wear mine up high as well, it helps hide the expanding middle universe!

  4. #4
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    Yep, I wear mine high as well. Even when I order casuals from USAK, I have the length set so I can wear it across my belly.
    “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.” -C.S. Lewis

  5. #5
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    It rather depends upon where I am and what I am doing! About half of my kilts are 'traditional' in tartan and with the rise, whilst the other half are a good mix of contemporary hipster style and the absolutely casual styles in anything but tartan.
    No. of Kilts: 102. "Title": Lord Hamish Bicknell, Laird of Lochaber / Life Member: The Scottish Tartans Authority / Life Member: The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society / Member: The Ardbeg Committee / My NEW Photo Album: Sadly, and with great regret, it seems my extensive and comprehensive album may now have been lost forever!/

  6. #6
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    Depends on which kilt I'm wearing.

  7. #7
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    Mostly 5 yard traditional style tartan kilts.
    Phil in Idaho

    "Walk Tall, Walk Straight, and Look the World Right in the Eye."
    That Great Celtic Philosopher Val Doonican

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    Not a place for a traditional box pleat!!! (What I make and wear)
    MacWage, "Dark Lord of the Box Pleat!"/ "Box Pleat Militant" Laird of Glenmoor (Carolina)
    CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!)

  9. #9
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    I wear my kilts just above my navel. When I finally get the money to order a professionally made kilt, that's where it will ride. Even in trousers, I don't believe in plumber's crack.
    Charles Walker Jr.
    What do you mean you "killed him Cha-cha-cha?"-Dave Lister, Red Dwarf Series I, Episode V Confidence and Paranoia
    My WoW characters: Main: Fnordella, lvl. 80, Human Warlock Primary Alt:IgnotiusP, lvl. 51, Human Paladin. Secondary alts: too many to list here-but if you ask I'll tell you.

  10. #10
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    Currently, all I've got are UKs - a denim, olive mocker, and caramel workman - thanks to my wife, who bought all three (I LOVE that lady!).

    Frog

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