Whilst clearing a heap of junk from my office I came accross a letter that some of you may be interested in.It was wriiten by a Mr.Charles Edmond from Argyll and the letter was published in the Scottish Field magazine in Oct 2002.
My words in brackets.

Are Kilts Too Long?

Why is it that post war(WW2) wearers of the kilt seem to have developed a tendency to have them made, and worn, far too long?I have worn the kilt regularly since schooldays some 70-odd years ago, and we were instructed always to have the kilt worn at least an inch, to an inch-and-a-half above the kneecap, and to allow five-and-a-half inches between the top of the stockings and the bottom of the kilt. In short, we always had to have five to six inches of leg showing, or if you knelt down on the floor, one-and-a-half inches clear should always be seen.

One only needs to look, however, at today's wedding photographs to see how trollopy some kilt-wearers look with kilt and stockings almost meeting each other.

Does this phenomenon arise because the kilt makers of today's generation have not themselves been properly brought up in the wearing of the kilt, or simply don't know what is correct? Or does it arise from the fact that the kilt is no longer an obligatory garment at school, or in some of the armed forces, or what used to be the OTU(Officers Training Unit) where we were all obliged to wear the kilt? What a pity we can't get it right.C.E 2002


Food for thought,perhaps?