Quote Originally Posted by pdcorlis
Awesome paintings - I love his sense of light and the kilted figures look grand! On a side note, I'm really starting to think that wearing the kilt so it sits at top of knee looks much more masculine.
Absolutely.

Being on the distaff side I realise that wearing kilts is transvesting - but I do make my kilts 24 inches long which makes them look more skirtish on me but also means that I can more easily sell them to persons of the male persuasion.

There used to be a long leggity young fellow used to walk along the main street here in a kilt several inches above the knee, with boots and scrunched down socks - I think he wore it with a cap sleeved tee shirt, but I didn't actually look much above his waist - naturally I had my eyes modestly cast down and only incidentally did that give me a good view of the way the pleats oscillated.

You do have to keep the proportions of the body in mind though. Anyone who is a bit wide in the body should wear the waistline higher rather than lower so that the kilt does not look wider than it is long, and having the hemline at a little above the centre of the knee would be no bad thing - particularly if wearing a dark kilt with a light top, particularly a long sleeved shirt cut in the loose style of today.

A lot of shirts these days would be a lot more flattering with less fabric around the waist. They used to have pleats in the back, or even darts for narrowing to the waist, at one time, and were far more pleasing to the eye. Though there were more waistlines rather than equators around then too.