Yes Jock that also happens with Pipe Bands, with a band owning a set of kilts for decades, for a quarter-century or more, and the kilts being resized repeatedly to fit various people over the years.
Also many of the Pipe Band people might be new to kilt-wearing and not even realise that a kilt is made to a certain centre-line.
It's why it's best for Pipe Band kilts to be pleated to the line, and to lack belt loops, because the back of the kilt is thrown off-centre when the buckles are moved to fit a larger or smaller person.
But at least in Pipe Bands the aprons are usually left alone, so that the kilt will look centred unless the person has it on crooked.
I think civilian kilts have long been made centred, and that any kiltmaker worth the name would make his kilts that way, and if doing work on an existing kilt try to make it that way.
Certainly in vintage Highland Dress catalogues going back into the 1930s and 1920s it is clear that kilts are intended to be worn centred
Last edited by OC Richard; 12th February 15 at 05:43 AM.
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