Jacket Length

[OC Richard]

This is why, if you wear a Prince Charlie coatee, that you MUST wear your kilt up high at the anatomical waist. So no white shirt is visible between the top of the kilt and the bottom of the coatee.

There is also the old school 'rule' that you do not wear a belt when you wear a vest. This is where braces come in.

Yes indeed! These things can't be said enough. It's so common to see men in Prince Charlies wearing their kilts too low exposing a broad expanse of white shirt. It makes their jackets look too short, when in fact their jackets are fine.



Ditto in Pipe Bands with their waistcoats. (With the guy on the left notice the fell of his kilt is well underneath his buttocks.)



Unfortunately the waistcoat issue has become, at least in the USA pipe band scene, one of those things where people fix a problem by addressing the symptom rather than the cause.

Most pipe bands I know get their waistcoats/vests from Higgins, and Higgins makes vests in regular, long, and extra long. These latter have become popular with pipe bands, worn by people of ordinary height, because it hides the expanse of shirt caused by the kilt worn down around the hips.

I'm having a problem I've rarely had in my life, a jacket that's too long.

I bought it vintage. I'm a big person, 6'4" so I wasn't frightened off by the jacket's label saying 50 Long.

Well, it's just too long, both in the sleeves and in the body, as you can see. I think I'm making it worse by wearing my kilt too high.



I say that because the jacket doesn't look quite as too-long here