Kilt Height

[Nathan]

Regarding straps, I have one kilt with three straps and two others with two. In my experience, if you need to buckle the top strap tightly to avoid your kilt sagging down, sometimes, that distorts the sett of the tartan slightly at the top of the kilt. What I mean is the vertical lines at the top get drawn closer to the strap but that line doesn't want to continue all the way down the apron. I notice that having the hip strap allows me to compensate for that and have a nice clean line of the sett from top to bottom without too much fussing about. I understand that this isn't an issue for many body types and tartans but depending on the sett, your body type and the weight of the tartan fabric, this may be an issue for you. All three of my kilts are well made by different makers and there is set distortion to worry about on both my 16 oz and my 13 oz kilts. This isn't really an issue with my 22oz kilt. That said, it's not enough of an issue for me to add a third strap to my two strap kilts and, in fact, I don't like the look of the third strap with evening attire.

Regarding the hip hugger/breachan/low rise look, you may also wish to consider where you wear your sporran as you should have some tartan above it.