Less Can Be More

[Jock Scot]

With the greatest respect Jock, no matter how many times you repeat this on the forum, it still won't be true. There are several traditional sources both Military and civilian on kilt wearing that I have shown on other threads on this site that suggest "no lower than mid knee" or "mid knee or higher" or "between the mid knee and top of the knee".

It's perfectly fine to state your preference for an above the knee kilt height but to call it an "absolute" is contrary to the demonstrable published record on the subject.

Whilst at the parade this weekend I made note of the soldiers from some 6 kilted regiments all of whom were clothed sharply to this standard.

The fact is that there is and has been conjecture on this point among traditional sources. Wishing it were not the case won't change that.

Sigh, sigh and sigh again.

We are talking very much the same thing, I think. My "around the top of the knee"(I did not say AT the top of the knee) is not really much different from your definition. Had I said, ----and I nearly did------"around mid knee" then this would have allowed some to interpret, incorrectly (for this discussion), that to mean, lower than mid knee, which would have not come within the wonderfully loose and sometimes unhelpfully imprecise THCD definition.

A few months ago there was an interesting and long running thread going where we tried to define THCD and the best we(me I think) could come up with was " I am not sure I can define it, but I know it when I see it". We must remember we are not talking rigid military dress regulations here----thank goodness------- nevertheless, there are very loose THCD boundaries, all of which are entirely voluntary and should one want to dress in that(THCD) style then one needs to be aware of the pitfalls and one of them is kilt height.