How high do you wear your kilt

[tundramanq]

I have two varieties of kilts in the closet. Longer for winter and shorter for summer. Indoors both get the "top of the kneecap" hem setting. This works best for sitting without messing up the pleats when I put an ankle on the other knee. But then outside and the cold winter wind is making my knees too cold it is easy to slide the longer kilts down about two inches and get my knobby knees out of the wind. Back inside, I hitch it back up.
My upper body garments are all made to work with the lower waist position so it is no issue if more of the kilt is covered when I have moved the kilt up.

[Randy McIntosh]

This works best for sitting without messing up the pleats when I put an ankle on the other knee.

IMHO Ankle on knee is not a method of sitting I'd recommend to anyone nor do I enjoy it when I see it.
You'd never find a lady in a skirt nor dress sitting like that.

As to how high to wear the kilt? Me I wear mine just under the rib cage and it goes to the knee cap.

[tundramanq]

It's a lifetime habit that is quite hard to break. Thus I am careful about the aprons when sitting. I don't want to be "that guy".

[The Wizard of BC]

As a kiltmaker I find it interesting how much our perceptions have changed since the invention of the Utilikilt and the introduction of the mass produced "tourist kilt".

Today we expect to buy all of our clothing, including our kilts, "off the rack". This is quite a bit different than just a few years ago, It was not that long ago that the kilt was viewed as something different from all your other clothing. You visited your kiltmaker and had your kilt custom fit to your body shape.

Today, many of the kilts available are made to a pre-determined pattern. You may have noticed that almost all of the less expensive kilts are sold 24 inches long. They will also have a hips to waist ratio that is taken from some average body shape.

This has led to a very big misunderstanding about how a kilt should be worn.

Unless you have a modern, utility style kilt, the garment you buy has probably been made to a pattern much more similar to a traditional style kilt. The waist height is designed to sit much higher and the Fell, (or area in the back where the pleats are sewn down and tapered), will be much longer.

If you wear a kilt using the traditional patterns, down at where you would wear jeans, it is very common for the hem to end up below the top of the kneecap.
And what is sometimes overlooked - the back of the kilt will develop "shower curtain" waves due to the bottom of the Fell ending up too low.

So what we are finding very common today is a two fold problem. One is wearing a garment, made from a pattern derived from the traditional kilt, differently that how it was originally designed - and two, buying garments designed for an "average" body shape.

If you prefer to wear your kilt like jeans it is probably best that you wear one of the modern, utility or even contemporary style kilts, made to be worn lower.