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    Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
    Would you please post those photos?
    I wish I could. I'm supposed to be taking over website moderation duties, but there are some... problems... within the group right now, and they are two of about 300 pictures that I haven't gotten yet. As soon as I get them, I'll put them up, but right now, it looks like there might not be a group come summer. And we just got our tax-exempt status too.
    "Two things are infinite- the universe, and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein.

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    Quote Originally Posted by McFarkus View Post
    These days, wearing a kilt is a form of rebellion in itself.
    Too right.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot View Post
    This doesn't take into account, though, of the raising of the Highland Regiments. A number of scholars credit this with "saving" Highland attire after the proscription, and civilian Highland attire certainly has been influenced over the years by military fashion.

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    Influenced? A couple of 'tartan police' on this board, who shall remain nameless, told me that I have to wear my kilt at military regulation length or otherwise I would be disrespecting the highland regiments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by O'Callaghan View Post
    Influenced? A couple of 'tartan police' on this board, who shall remain nameless, told me that I have to wear my kilt at military regulation length or otherwise I would be disrespecting the highland regiments.
    I cannot speak to the length of kilts in regards to the regiments, sir -- my point was that the regiments did most certainly preserve Highland dress after the Proscription, and civilian Highland attire owes a great deal to the regiments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by O'Callaghan View Post
    Influenced? A couple of 'tartan police' on this board, who shall remain nameless, told me that I have to wear my kilt at military regulation length or otherwise I would be disrespecting the highland regiments.
    I have never made such a statement while sober. I would never tell another man how to wear his kilt unless he be a candidate for the don't file. Those of you I have not met will only be judged when I am sampling the liquid refreshment of a local liquid dispensing house. And if said refreshments are purchased in my behalf, whatever I have to say means nothing anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by O'Callaghan View Post
    Influenced? A couple of 'tartan police' on this board, who shall remain nameless, told me that I have to wear my kilt at military regulation length or otherwise I would be disrespecting the highland regiments.
    At which particular point in history are you referring, I have seen a number of pictures of length well above the knee and several of just below the knee, one being the late 17 something and the other late 18 something.
    So just pick the particular point in history that suits you, and you will never be wrong.
    Its just a fashion after all and the current fashion is for just below the centre of the knee cap but it was never always that way, so you are just respecting a different period in history.

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    Knee High to A Kilt

    Having looked at literally hundreds and hundreds of paintings, engravings, and photographs of men in kilts, the common length seems to be at or above the knee. Early illustrations tend to show the kilt several inches above he knee, while some Edwardian photographs show it worn to the middle of the knee cap. I have yet to see any body of credible visual evidence to suggest that the kilt was ever generally worn any longer.

    Certainly anyone who has spent any time outdoors in a kilt, especially in rough country, will tell you that shorter is better-- something our kilt-wearing fore bearers knew centuries ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowser View Post
    Its just a fashion after all and the current fashion is for just below the centre of the knee cap but it was never always that way, so you are just respecting a different period in history.
    Sorry, current fashion is just above the knee cap.
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    its not a fashion but a preference.
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