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    Great idea Phil. Post a pic Jerry. Let us give you our unbiased opinion. I personally like to wear mine so that the bottom of the kilt is right at the top of the knee or slightly below.
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    The traditional Kiltmaker that made my first kilt insisted that the correct length was to the middle of the kneecap. My subsequent kilts were made to fall to the top of the knee and I believe they look better.

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    Jerry wear do like the kilt level at. If you don't like it , why put up with it?

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    Take a look at some of the old paintings of kilted Scots...it might look a bit long compared to them.

    I like my kilts at the top of my knee or higher...though it is taking me some time to get used to the bare leg look when I sit...wouldn't think twice about it in shorts...weird...relative thing I guess.

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    Better much short than too long-first for appearance: and secondly comfort in bad weather.

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    I did a fancy stitch on the hem of my new kilt - but it turned out a bit long - no matter, I thought - until I wore it out in the wind and rain. It was soon heavy enough not to fly about - but it was like wearing a ring of sand paper around the knees.

    Now it is dry and the hem is cut off - no more fancy stuff, and nothing long enough to catch the back of the knee joint - a little more abraision and I would be needing skin grafts.

    Slightly short is far better than even half an inch too long.

    It depends on how the waist is formed and backed, but if you wear the kilt it might stretch slightly and settle a little lower.

    However...

    Reading the description of the length measurement required - I'd have thought the kilt should be rather longer than that. Is it?

    Kils are worn higher on the body than hip level, so I would think that the measurement from the hip would be a number of inches too short.
    Last edited by Pleater; 22nd January 06 at 07:59 AM. Reason: errors - should have quoted.

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    Okay. I finally dug out my digital camera and took a couple of pics. As for the measurements, I asssumed that they would add an inch or two for the rise, to the hip measurement. The first pic is with the kilt worn just slightly above where I wear jeans (It is touching the navel)



    The second pic is with the kilt worn at the hips (actual point of measurement). The hip to knee measurement was 19 inches. The rest of my kilts (other than my Still water economy) are 22 inches and hit at just about mid knee. I feel somewhat like I'm wearing a mini-kilt in this one. In fact the customs declaration on the box says "mini kilt". Here is the second pic with the kilt sitting at about the actual measurement point. Please keep in mind that what I'm wearing is not what I'd actually wear with this kilt or any other that my old Sportkilt around the house. I wonder if Mac, Barb, or any other kilt maker have any idea as to whether a taylor or seamstress could lengthen it? For my tastes, it would be a fantastic kilt if it was just an inch and a half longer. When I ordered it I was looking for a solid black kilt made like a traditional

    Last edited by Jerry; 22nd January 06 at 09:16 AM.
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