I came across this photo which perfectly illustrates the traditional way of NOT chopping a kilt to 21 or 22 inches, but letting a kilt simply ride higher on the body.
These men are Regimental Sergeant Majors. It's hard to imagine higher examples of the way the regiment's kit should be worn. If either of these men's kilts wasn't exactly how they wanted it to be they would take it to the regimental tailor and have it sorted.
You can see that one man is large, and there's a gap of several inches between the bottom of his shirt pockets and the top of his kilt. The other man is much shorter and the top of his kilt overlaps the bottoms of his pockets a bit. (I have another photo of the man on the left where you can see that the bottoms of his pockets are under his kilt.)
Surely the regulations would specify a set number of inches between the bottoms of the pockets and the top of the kilt? We can see that this isn't the case.
I think if the man on the left were an American kiltwearer, military, police, fire, or ordinary civilian, he would have his kilt chopped by three or four inches, or wear his kilt three or four inches lower, coming to the top of his hose.
Last edited by OC Richard; 25th July 20 at 06:27 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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