Yes what Fr Bill says.
It's unfortunate that many Americans who recently get into wearing kilts, only having jeans and pants as a reference, wear their kilts too low on the hips.
This makes the kilts hang too low, covering the knees.
The unfortunate part is that many of these people, rather than wearing their kilts higher, want the kilt made shorter to compensate for their wearing it too low.
I see now all the time men's kilts being sold which are quite short, shorter than kilts would have been made in the old days, except for a boy.
Standard more or less for men of average height is a 24" overall length. In the old days men would have to be quite short to wear a 23" length. Yet I see average-height Americans wearing kilts of 23", 22", and even shorter!
I've been wearing traditional kilts for 45 years now, this to me is my ideal height (I'm the piper)
Last edited by OC Richard; 2nd April 20 at 05:43 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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