Where do wear like the lower edge of the kilt

**Seawolf** · 21st February 12, 02:31 PM

Sorry I missed you! I had on a Black Watch (mercenaries that my ancestors were) and a black tee shirt. I did wear a hoodie at times if I was cold.

Keep in touch!

Slàinte mhor a h-uile là a chi 's nach fhaic!

Seawolf

**Dale Seago** · 22nd February 12, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by Jackson

Rocky says about 2" above the navel. I sent him a picture of myself in my current kilt and he felt that it was a tad low at right at or slightly above the navel. I'm not very tall, so to bring it up that additional 1 or so seems awfully high. What do you all think?

It does take some getting used to for people who've worn bifurcated garments all their lives, and at first it feels weird to have the waist that high and you just KNOW it has to look ridiculous too.

But it doesn't, really. I generally wear mine a teeny bit higher than yours but still lower than Rocky's recommendation, at about one inch and a smidgen above the navel. It's just enough that no shirt fabric shows at the waist if I'm "going native" and wearing a waistcoat & argyle jacket.

I do think your pic looks just fine, by the way!

**slohairt** · 22nd February 12, 07:33 PM

Top of the knee cap for me.

**Jackson** · 22nd February 12, 07:53 PM

Dale, I appreciate the comments. I think we're all on the same page. Wear it where it feels best! I like that......

Jackson

**Santa Wally** · 22nd February 12, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

It does take some getting used to for people who've worn bifurcated garments all their lives, and at first it feels weird to have the waist that high...

I bought my first kilt 35 months ago, wearing it at waist (navel) level seemed strange a first. It has become very comfortable and now I wear it above my navel and it feels very comfortable and natural. The more you wear the kilt, the more it will feel natural.

Now when I wear p@n+$ and $h0r+$, they feel strange and uncomfortable for me.

**NCMC** · 22nd February 12, 08:59 PM

Just above the knee. It shows a bit of skin between the hose and kilt.
For others, it is how ever they like. But I will be remind them that the pleats go in the back.

**Seawolf** · 23rd February 12, 07:06 AM

Madainn mhath

I thought that is what the sporran was for!

Slàinte mhor a h-uile là a chi 's nach fhaic!

Seawolf

**Mike_Oettle** · 23rd February 12, 01:46 PM

Dale Seago wrote: “at first it feels weird to have the waist that high and you just KNOW it has to look ridiculous too.”

Well, no, having worn a kilt in a regiment (and seeing everyone else in the regiment doing it properly) it was not ridiculous to me, but my wife still feels she has to ridicule me when I put a kilt on.
1. She’s not wearing it.
2. Who made her an expert on the subject?
Regards,
Mike

**OC Richard** · 24th February 12, 06:26 AM

I checked "top of the kneecap" but actually I usually wear the kilt somewhere between the top and middle of the kneecap, for which there was no poll option.

I've a huge collection of vintage kilt photos and also many images covering the history of Highland Dress and it's remarkable how stable, in general, kilt length has been.

In the 18th century it was at or just above the top of the kneecap

and in the 19th century, early

mid

and up into the mid-20th century

But at least in the Pipe Band scene there's an unfortunate trend of wearing kilts too low, especially amongst drummers.

Here SFU's kilts look OK, around mid-kneecap

but here, with Spirit of Scotland, where are the knees?