Someone in a thread here recently posted pictures of a pipe band on parade (either at the Gathering or a recent Highland Games in Scotland, I cannot recall). But I do recall noting at the time that I could not see a knee in the whole band. Every one of them had kilts that reached to the top of their kilt hose or lower, so there was not a knee in sight.

Just looking at photographs of people kilted, across the board, I have noticed a trend that in Scotland it seems fashionable to wear the kilt a bit longer than what is traditionally seen as acceptable.

What I was taught, and what most here on this side of the pond accept as traditional, is that the kilt should be somewhere between the middle of the knee at the longest, and one inch above the top of the knee at the shortest.

What I see being worn by many in Scotland -- even some catalog pictures -- are kilts worn from the middle of the knee to the bottom of the knee.

Here in America, and among older Scots I know, that would still be considered too long. Perhaps this is a case of fashion changing in Scotland while we here in the States still adhere to the more traditional style? (Please note I have not undertaken a serious study of this, it is just something I've noticed over the past few years).