Hi Graham

Proper wearing of a kilt? A kilt is a garment and like any other garment you should wear the right size, so for a traditional tartan kilt this means it shouldn't droop at the waist and should stop at top-mid knee length, and the straps should attach to the buckles. Also the flat panels are worn to the front (I have seen it worn with the pleats to the front!!). Basically, what we don't like is those who think wearing a kilt is a great joke and act accordingly.

Here in Scotland only the 7-9yd wool tartan kilts are referred to simply as kilts, everything else has a descriptive prefix eg casual kilt, sports kilt, hillwalking kilt etc. From the traditionalist point of view anything under 5yds is not a kilt of any kind (now that's going to upset someone!) - however, if you measure your Bear 4yd you are most likely to find it actually measures near enough 5yds (info from Bear on a different topic). Similarly, the lightweight 10/11oz weight is not fully accepted, although the kilt I normally wear for hillwalking etc is a lightweight 5 yard - obviously no problems when hiking solo but in company I have to be prepared for holding down in breezy conditions. However, as the Hong Kong incident mentioned previously showed, even the very heavy military kilt will lift given suitable conditions.