I wish to point out that actual length and stated length of a kilt sometimes vary. I have several "off the rack" wool kilts by a popular vendor which are all supposedly 24" but they vary from one another by more than an inch in actual length. Furthermore, I have a very nice 8 yard bespoke kilt from an old Edinburgh kilt maker that is 1/2" shorter than the length stated by the maker. All that to say, one must really try a kilt on and see the specific kilt on your own body before determining whether or not it is appropriate length. And by the way, I compensate for these differences by hiking the kilt up or down slightly at the top. Fortunately, they all seem to hang just where I buckle them on.