Kilt length question

[OC Richard]

I'll just say that it's an unfortunate recent trend here in the USA for men to wear their kilts too low.

I think it's influenced by how modern slacks and jeans are cut to be down around the hips rather than up at the waist.

They purchase a kilt that's correctly made, but when they put it on the bottom of the kilt covers their knees, due to wearing it too low.

These people solve this problem by sending their kilt back to have it shortened by the maker, or having an ordinary tailor hem it. And the next time they order a kilt they specify a shorter length, lengths that were only used for youth's kilts in the old days.

Ancillary problems now arise, like their shirt showing in the gap that now exists between the bottom of their waistcoat and the top of the kilt. This they solve by buying longer waistcoats. We have an American firm that sells waistcoats to most of the pipe bands around here and they make some of their waistcoats absurdly long, so that they would only look proportional on a person nearly 7 feet tall, but are worn by men of ordinary height.