Kilt Lengths in Gathering Photos

[ronstew]

Yes, mid to bottom of the knee is not the current modern tradition. It should be mid to top of the knee for the modern look.

Sorry to be so late in replying, but can there be such a thing as a "current modern tradition"?

[pdcorlis]

Speaking as a photographer I can tell you camera position can have everything to do with apparent kilt length - and your height in a photo. Personally I prefer a kilt at the top of the knee and agree that a longer kilt seems "trollopy" for lack of a better word. Worse yet, like baggy shorts cut below the knee they tend to make you look shorter - and fatter. One last thought from me - if a traditional "high-waist" kilt is tailored correctly, it will not ride down with wear.

[Highland Logan]

I can see the camera angle point. But has anyone asked those in any of the pictures where they are from? How many Americans were photographed in Scotland during The Gathering, ect. You see my point.

Frank

[Jock Scot]

Well alright, I am being slightly mischievous, but I think it is a valid question. What proportion of the people in the parade pictures were Scots?

I posed the same question. I hope you have more luck with an answer than I did!

[Highland Logan]

I posed the same question. I hope you have more luck with an answer than I did!

Sorry Jock, I missed your asking the same question. I don't really expect to get an answer, nor do I think anyone can answer it. But I do think that the idea of it needed to be issued.

Frank

[Jock Scot]

Sorry Jock, I missed your asking the same question. I don't really expect to get an answer, nor do I think anyone can answer it. But I do think that the idea of it needed to be issued.

Frank

No worries! Actually, I am pleased some one is on the same wavelength.

[ThistleDown]

I don't have a definitive answer for you Jock and Logan, but I was in the Clan Chattan tent for both days of the Gathering and more than fifty percent of those who signed the visitors' book were from the UK. We chose not to march up the Royal Mile, but were told that 'way more than fifty percent of those who did were from elsewhere in the world than Scotland.

This photo was not taken at the Gathering, but at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness three weeks later. The Clan Chattan re-signed a Bond of Union last signed in 1609. Left to right: John Mackintosh of Mackintosh, Sir William Macpherson of Cluny, Captain Alwyn Farquharson of Invercauld, James McBain of McBain, Guy Macpherson Grant of Invereshie, and Alan Maclean of Dochgarroch, six of the heads of families descended from those who signed the original Bond. McBain lives in the US; the others in this photo live in Scotland. Three other chiefs who signed did so on-line from Spain, New Zealand and England.

[JRB]

This past weekend at the Capital District Scottish games near Albany, NY, I noticed that there were many men wearing their kilts below mid-knee. I also noticed that among those long kilted gentlemen there were several with Scottish accents. I don't think one's nationality has to do with the length at which one wears one's kilt.