High rise military kilts

[The Wizard of BC]

I have a brand new, still with the basting stitches, Royal Regt. of Scotland kilt here in my shop.
It has the same 2" rise found on almost every other modern traditionally made kilt.

The Rise of a kilt is the distance from the center of the top buckle and strap, up to the top of the kilt. (Drop is from the top buckle down to the hem)

All traditionally made kilts are supposed to be worn with the top strap and buckle cinched into the natural waist which is right under the ribs. A kilt worn at the natural waist will have the top of the kilt about two or three fingers width below the bottom of the sternum.

This is quite a bit higher than men today wear pants. Many kilt wearers do not understand that traditional kilt are supposed to be worn this high and attempt to wear them like pants.
This causes the bottom of Fell and the Hem to drop down.

Another issue that may contribute to this is that the kilt should taper in from the hip to the top straps and them flare back out above the straps. On the RRS kilt I have this was not done. The smallest part of the kilt is the waistband. If this kilt is worn it will always try to slide down till the smallest part of the kilt is at the smallest part of the body.