Quote Originally Posted by xena View Post
Yes, I noticed too that a lot of the "rules" that we worry about now seem to not have been rules at one time.

A lot of the kilts have pleats coming around into the front, as well as the back. Matt Newsome has already written articles (IIRC) about how kilts weren't always neatly pleated, but simply loosely gathered, as well as the whole drawstring thing.

Also, I noticed alot of them seemed to be rather short, by our standards. It seems that having a kilt hit you anywhere from mid-thigh to the knee was acceptable.

It seems that the "rules" about wearing kilts are not quite as strict as one might think.
I think that if you were to group the pictures by era, you'd see that the gentlemen are dressed very much according to the "rules" of the time in which they lived. Seeing these pictures out of sequence tends to give the impression that there were no standards of dress, in much the same way half a dozen baseball cards from the teens, 30's, and 70's might give the casual observer that there were no "rules" regarding the uniforms worn by ball players.