Quite right, I do have to wear all of my kilts a bit on the high side to keep a bit of knee showing. That's the price I pay (or don't pay, to be more precise) for buying off the rack and being on the short side. They are all comfortable this way so I don't mind that much. Until my weight stops being in flux, (lost nearly 30 lbs since Jan.) and I stop being cheap, I can't see having something custom fitted. This one is hemmed at the bottom, and rather poorly at that (even being new to kilts, it doesn't take a trained eye to recognize shoddy work) so it will be a fun project for me someday to re-do it to a proper length, probably when I get around to cutting down one of my thrift store jackets (which I learned here... thanks to several).

As far as the sporran, it isn't that is seems to hang low on me, but rather in relation to the belt. Until a few weeks ago I had been wearing chains along with sporrans with clip rings mounted near the middle. I'm still getting used to the hangers and some new sporrans with rings mounted near the top, so it just sort of feels like they hang a bit low, at least compared with my others.