I am 5'10" and, depending on the cut, I buy finished trousers with either a 30" or 32" inseam. Despite my pudgy appearance, I have something of an hourglass shape (OK, more like a half-hourglass), in that I have more top and bottom than middle. My natural waist is somewhere around my umbilicus, but with the right belt, I can cheat that up a bit - but only so far, beyond which gravity and geometry conspire to push my kilts back into a natural resting place.

Barb and others have pointed out that a well-made kilt will flare a bit at the rise to accomodate this, that the narrowest part of the kilt will be somewhere below the top of the waistband. My Standard SWK (Black Stewart) is not built this way. As a result I have to work too hard to keep this one in place.


Despite entreaties by this group not to hem this kilt, I still feel that it hangs too low because it wants to ride lower than where I want to put it. 24" is not for me, not in this model. In my present financial circumstances, my spending money is going toward other non-kilt priorities, or otherwise being saved for something closer to my ideal.

YMMV,
Rex in Cincinnati
On the other hand, I really like the idea of the solid shadow tartans!