Jock, I agree that the original post was for advice. But it sure seemed that the more posts that were made, the less friendly some of fhe advice seemed to be. Between military regulations and historical pictures, there seemed, in my opinion again, too muchy emphasis on the correct and accepted way to do things. Get enough old painints and you will still find variations in hight of hose and length of kilts. So, unless a person is in the military, which dictates fashions or in a band or other group that looks for uniformity, a person should simply find what is comortable. That is the best advice and what I intended.

I love the pic put in by Chas. One with "official height." One with hose down around his ankles, and one without hose at all. They all work.