Just to give perspective on kilt length, for the first 20 to 30 years of kiltwearing (starting in 1975) and playing in Pipe Bands with men of a range of heights I don't recall ever seeing or hearing of a kilt made shorter than 23".
In bands the shortest guys wore 23" most guys 24" and the tallest guys 25" and that was it.
It's that reason that I stand amazed to see kilts offered all the time now with 22" and 21" lengths.
In the old days those would be youths' kilts.
Nowadays most men wear their kilts lower than in the past and are wanting their kilts made shorter than they ever have been made for adults, as far as I know.
Even in that bastion of tradition, the Army, I'm seeing kilts made shorter than they used to be.
Since Army kilts used to be quite high, usually well above the navel, the shorter modern Army kilts fit about the same that traditional civilian kilts did. I think it's safe to guess that modern Army kilts are often 2" shorter than old Army kilts, and modern civilian kilts are often 2" shorter than old civilian kilts.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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