Last night, Xmarks member KiltedCole and I went to the bar for a couple of drinks, kilted.
Met a guy (wearing jeans) who definitely seemed to know his stuff - said he dusted off his kilt just the other day to check fit and everything for the next Burns supper - see if he'd have to lose some weight by then to fit.
He told us about his gillies, sporran, sgian-dubh, dirk, hose and flashes. All of it sounded legit.
I was wearing one of my homemade 4-yard box pleat kilts, started talking about the style a bit, and he cut in with "Well my kilt is pure wool - 35 yards"

He didn't take too well to us politely telling him we couldn't imagine it being that long and he should maybe measure it along the bottom edge, and the conversation soon fizzled out after that.

How would he have ever gotten the idea that his kilt was that long?
The only possibility we could come up with was that he misheard somebody talking about great kilts being "Three-to-five" yards, and assumed because his tailored kilt is "great" that it was "Ther-tee-five" yards

In the end, maybe he's just one of those guys that wears his kilt below the knee (if you know the joke)