21st Century Ankle-Length Kilts

[The Supreme Canuck]

Sure. If a guy likes it, he can go ahead and wear it. I still don't like the way it looks, though.

[Sir Robert]

Does anyone have pictures? None of the links work for me.

[Pleater]

Having looked again - just to make sure - I think the horisontal seam is a mistake - well except it would make it easier to take the bottom off and make something which might look a bit better....

It sort of makes it look as though the original concept was for something else (maybe more of a kilt) and it got adapted in mid construction.

[Mithral]

I have to agree with the "non-traditionalists" mainly because traditionally there really isn't any sort of set length on the kilt. There are 16th and 17th century woodcuts and drawings that show several scotsmen wearing their kilts at all different lengths, including down to the ankles. I'd say it's all a matter of preference.

Personally, I generally prefer to wear my non-tailored kilt when I can.

[Kiltman]

I have to agree with the "non-traditionalists" mainly because traditionally there really isn't any sort of set length on the kilt. There are 16th and 17th century woodcuts and drawings that show several scotsmen wearing their kilts at all different lengths, including down to the ankles. I'd say it's all a matter of preference.

Personally, I generally prefer to wear my non-tailored kilt when I can.

Would love to see some of the woodcuts. Can you give references to them either here or in a private email.

[An t-Ileach]

I know that Edinburgh tree that Howie's model Atta is leaning against. It's near the University going up from The Meadows by the main road. I've had to hang around it often waiting for my daughter to come out of classes.

[THISLPT]

um.......no thanks. I'll pass on this style.

The kilt atta is wearing reminds me a tad of something a samurai might wear.

To each his own though. If its your bag...then do it.

[Nick]

I have to agree with the "non-traditionalists" mainly because traditionally there really isn't any sort of set length on the kilt. There are 16th and 17th century woodcuts and drawings that show several scotsmen wearing their kilts at all different lengths, including down to the ankles. I'd say it's all a matter of preference.

Personally, I generally prefer to wear my non-tailored kilt when I can.

At least the 16th century ones, and maybe even the 17th century ones, are you sure they're actually kilts? Kilts didn't appear until the middle or end of the 16th to begin with. Just wondering from a historian's standpoint.


I won't disagree with the "Live and let live" idea, but I still don't like them. The whole TFCK sort of turns me off towards TFCK. I like the work I've seen from Geoffrey (Taylor), and some of the TFCK stuff I like, esp. the pinstripe kilt. But other than that, it just isn't what I'm looking for.

[Caradoc]

Kilts didn't appear until the middle or end of the 16th to begin with.

"Kilts," or "belted plaids?"

[Nick]

I think we can call the "belted plaid" a kilt in this context.