Kilt Length ?

[OC Richard]

seeing MANY kilts being worn at pants length on the hips irks me. Especially if a coat and vest are being worn and I can see the white of the shirt under the inverted v of the bottom of the vest.

Yes, and that's especially rampant in the pipe band world.

These guys' kilts are actually made to more or less the right length, but then they shove the kilt down around their hips like a hip-hop artist's jeans. Now the bottom of the kilt is level with the top of their hose, and a big gap of shirt is showing between their kilt and their waistcoat.

It wouldn't stand out quite as much if it wasn't for the facts that
1) nearly all pipe bands nowadays wear waistcoats without jackets (at last year's Worlds every single band in Grade One was so dressed)
2) in competition each band stands in a circle with their backsides facing out
3) at least half of the bandsmen are wearing waistcoats which are too short.

What's presented to the audience is a big wad of shirt sticking out half the people's backs.

That, and the backs of the bandmen's hose all ahoo, and the flashes worn every which way.

Even last weekend in Grade One, streamed worldwide on the BBC, at the very time one would think the bands would be careful about their dress.