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30th October 12, 06:17 AM
#14
 Originally Posted by Bobby Gordon
Thanks again Tobus
yeah I know what you mean, your probably right. My brothers live in England and Spain, and the first time they'd come to see me in Scotland, so that day was the first day they'd even tried on a kilt! I'm sure you know what weddings are like, just a mad rush in the morning!
Now, I'm a bit confused about the correct length: what height someone wears it is a bit out of my hands, but what you say about it coming to the top of the knee is what I've always thought, and it what is recommended in 'The Art of Kiltmaking'. But when I was making my kilt and showing it to my then fiancé and a friends mother and grandmother (so three generations of Scottish women in one room) they all said that was too much knee. When i've been into kilt-makers in Edinburgh they say to get the accurate length the client kneels on the ground and they measure from naval down to hovering just above the ground.
I think, once again, the length of the kilt is personal preference. Where you feel good with it. Not higher than an inch above the kneecap and not lower than the bottom of the kneecap (simply because that looks funny, not right, bad or as was quoted in one well known book trollopy!).
Last edited by BCAC; 30th October 12 at 06:17 AM.
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