Too small - wear at hips or modify?

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A picture might help but usually the "solution" for shrinking as well as expanding waist bands is to simply move the buckle positions. This works fine if it doesn't have to be adjusted too much. I would think that wearing the kilt low (whether the lower right hand buckle was removed or not) so that the hem was below the middle of the knee would be the bigger issue as far as traditional looks is concerned. This may sound crazy, but wearing suspenders (braces for the non U.S. crowd) to hold the kilt at your true waist level and then wearing a vest/waistcoat over that would keep everything "where it should be" and wouldn't require a lot of modification to the kilt. Anyway, ' just some thoughts......