Quote Originally Posted by NorCalPiper View Post
...regimental kilts should rise to the arc of the rib cage to accommodate the military doublet, and the belt being fastened around the doublet. Her thoughts are that when the kilt left the regimental arena and began to take popularity in the populace, the waist came down to the navel...
She's probably bang-on.

In the US pipe band scene many of the players, esp younger ones, insist on shoving the kilt down around the hips so that the bottom of the kilt comes to the top of the hose, hiding the knees.

Some doublet makers have responded by making their doublets far longer in the waist than military doublets properly are.

Here's a clear photo of the proper height of the waist of a military doublet, worn by a private of the Cameron Highlanders. The kilt must be high-waisted as well.



Here's a modern Scottish army doublet showing this high waist:



Here's a doublet probably made in India or Pakistan with an absurdly long waist:



I wonder if it was made that way out of ignorance, or because US clients were asking for them to be that way.