How do you wear your garter ties?

[BoldHighlander]

Okay, recently I had ordered a pair of size large garter ties, but found that they were just a tad on the short side. So, I exchanged them for the extra-large pair. Now, I find that these are just a wee bit too long (or so I thought)!

In the end I tucked the extra bit up under the fold-over of my kilt hose.
It worked okay, but I'm still disappointed....and it seemed to make things a wee bit bulky (the full story can be found here).

I've always liked the look, but I only recently started wearing traditional garter ties. After viewing photos of the rabble who wear this style, including this one of Matt Newsome (& including his tutorial below),...





...I was always under the impression that one wears them with just the fringe peeking out from under the hose cuff, like this found on the House of Cheviot website:



It was while doing a search for Country/Shooting Hose the other night, and coming upon the afore mentioned House of Cheviot website that I discovered the wearing of the garter ties also like the following examples (this is very much how mine look before tucking the extra-length back up under the cuff):







I started to wonder *if* this was only acceptable with hunting attire, as illustrated in the above photos, or if one could wear the garters like that with the kilt, so I did a search on XMTS. Unfortunately there are just too many threads that pop up when one looks for "garter ties", though I did find these two examples.

The first is of Matt (I'm not picking on you Matt! ) & the second is of Riverkilt (Ron):


(the above is not as long as the House of Cheviot examples, but longer than in the two previous Newsome examples)



So, my question is, (for those who wear Traditional Garter Ties), how do you wear your garter ties?

Do you leave just the fringe sticking out? Do you allow the extra-length to hang out? Does it even matter? And why do you choose to wear them in the fashion you choose?

If you have photos, could you post them please?