Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
5) There is a recent trend to keep the kilt a bit lower, with the kilt covering around 2/3 of the knee or even all of the knee. Seems to me that this trend is mainly powered by newer, inexperienced kilt-wearers, and Pipe Band drummers. (Why so many Drum Corps have low kilts while the Pipe Corps have proper kilts I have no idea.)
Some of the lower kilt wearing is definitely driven by inexperienced kilt wearers not quite realising what it should look like.

But I think some of it, in my experience, is also driven more consciously by younger people wearing it in a more casual context, where wearing it at the correct height can feel/look a bit odd a bit odd around the waist (at least to people used to low waisted jeans etc) They therefore wear it lower around the waist, leading to it consequently sitting too low at the knees. This is so common, at least in Scotland, that it’s almost become a look in itself! Arguably, just as civilian kilts are shorter than military kilts due to the way they are worn, there is perhaps a case for kilts targetted at the casual / rugby / football crowds to be cut a little shorter still, to remove the issue.