Kilt length

[MGMorrison]

Please see the attached photo. The kilt is comfortable, between my hip and ribs, but does it seem too high?

[Jock Scot]

To many modern kilt wearers eyes and minds you are probably wearing the kilt way up on the high side, to my rather antiquated traditional eye the height of your kilt is a tiny wee tad on the high side of perfect.

If you click onto my name alongside my avatar(you need to be logged in) you will find a heading of "old threads" started by me(top left hand side of the page), somewhere in amongst the assorted titles is a thread title called " Interesting Letter", you may find the subject matter pertinent to your question.

[Dughlas mor]

I guess by modern standards it might be considered a bit high, but it looks like it is right dead at the top of the kneecap, which I thought was the traditional length. I prefer to wear mine about an inch lower.

[Kevin Murphy]

As a young fellow I see too many pictures of people in my age group wearing a kilt too low. It just doesn't look right at the modern pants waistline. Much as sagging pants look to pants, a kilt looks like it is sagging the way many people are now wearing them.

With all that said, your kilt looks very nice. If a kilt I owned sat as high above the knee I would still wear it. Some of my kilts are longer than others. Variety is nice, and regardless of anything else I have said I believe that you are wearing it well and with dignity.

P.s. I almost never like white hose, but they look nice with the kilt. Perhaps the blend between the sporran and white stripes?

[MGMorrison]

Thank you gentlemen.
When I started wearing kilts 5 years ago, I did not cinch both top straps tight enough, so by the end of day, the "slide" had kicked in, and it was below my knees, and I needed an arm extender to open my sporran.

....Must have sometning to do with my increasing waist line as I get older.

As far as the white hose, I have several different pair/ colors now from the House of Cheviot.

As Ive said in other posts, I learn something every time I log in.

[Mike S]

As far as the selvedge edge, at the top of, or no longer than to the middle of the knee, is optimal. The waistline in your example is fine, and could even go a wee bit farther up towards the rib cage. Even more so if wearing it in the "regimental" manner.

[McElmurry]

Looks great to me. You can blouse your shirt a bit if you want which is to untuck your shirt an inch or two and let it fold over the top of your kilt. You may find the kilt rides a little lower toward the end of a long day out and about.

[Roderick Powell]

Thank you gentlemen.
When I started wearing kilts 5 years ago, I did not cinch both top straps tight enough, so by the end of day, the "slide" had kicked in, and it was below my knees, and I needed an arm extender to open my sporran.

....Must have sometning to do with my increasing waist line as I get older.

As far as the white hose, I have several different pair/ colors now from the House of Cheviot.

As I have said in other posts, I learn something every time I log in.

I LIVE IN UK Cornwall. I have been with Scottish Ex Pats in South Dorset, say twenty miles west of Anne the Pleater for thirty five years.
We always wore what is correctly called Ivory Hose. I still wear them as they work well.
Perhaps this is Uniformity to a tradition. All the Kilties legs are covered in the same colour Kilt Hose. All the Kilts are different colours.
All the shirts are white and worn with Ties. No tartan ties are worn. This is the form for dancing.
It is a sort of phycological thing. Do not be the odd man out.
I never see a Kiltie out on the street. Anyone who has seen me may copy my style. I may then change my style, and they would
then become Confused. I feel this subject should stay in this thread until it becomes a different debate.
We are offering a Crit ( an art college term ) in what we see in photos in the thread.
What one has to watch is how the impact of the Kilt wearing changes when the Colour of the Kilt hose is changed.
I believe a thread was posted....Ten different was to wear a Kilt.
A question was asked and I stuck in my five pence worth of info. ....................Roderick............15.10.15

[Dale-of-Cedars]

Having 3 kilts in different lengths, I have abandoned my initial (p@nts-we@rer) anxiety about where the top of the kilt falls, and just peg the selvedge to the top of my knee.
As with early military kilts, they were all mostly the same length, and if the top came up to your armpits, so be it!

[Tarheel]

I am not sure I can judge how high your kilt should be worn. The look seems fine for top of the knees and (I am guessing) your ribs. My kilts are a high onto my ribs but do not pinch them and my kilt hangs just onto my kneecaps. You look comfortable and if that is the case, a "thumbs up" is my opinion.