Remember that short clothes are a relatively modern innovation - no respectable woman would wear a garment as short as a modern kilt in Victorian times - and although the 'flappers' wore their skirts short in the roaring Twenties (1920s) they would have caused consternation in the streets - longer length coats and capes were de rigeur. It was not until the 1960s that hemlines rose, but they were to be worn with tights, and often with long socks or boots as well to reduce the impact of so much skin. It was not unusual to wear a mini skirt with an ankle length coat.

The standard way to close a kilt is left over right - there is no alteration for women - it is like the kimono in that.

My kilts fifty years ago were fastened on the right, kilts worn by girls or women in old films, photos, knitting patterns, magazine illustrations etc. were closed on the right.

Girls might wear a knee length kilt, but for women the normal length was 27 inches - one half of the 54inch of the standard wool fabric woven back then in British mills.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: