With kilt yardage, when I got into kiltwearing (1975) people seemed to regard the 8-yard kilt as standard.
There were two local kiltmakers here, and places in Scotland one could order kilts from, and it all seemed to be about 8 yard kilts.
In 2006 I joined a new Pipe Band and the kilt they issued me was exceptionally comfortable. I could tell it was heavyweight cloth yet the kilt was lighter, so I measured the yardage and it was between 6 and 7 yards.
So when I ordered my next two kilts I had them made that way.
A few years ago I started collecting vintage Highland Dress catalogues, mostly from the 1930s, and to my surprise I discovered that kilts in various yardages were offered by the firms that mentioned yardage. (Around half the catalogues make no mention.)
So perhaps the largest Highland Dress maker of the period, RG Lawrie Glasgow, offers gentlemen's kilts in 6, 7, and 8 yards in 1936.
Interestingly the c1955 Anderson's catalogue offers kilts in "7, 8, or more yards".
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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