Yes it's odd the way that in the pipe band scene, people have been wearing their kilts lower and lower.

Not just US pipe bands, and people new to wearing kilts, but Scots, Scots who have worn the kilt on a regular basis their entire lives.

Here's what I mean:





but it's not always so. SFU, the reigning World Champions, have some knee showing



The Army, though, still wear their kilts a bit on the high side and their hose a bit on the low side: