I myself like the look I personally wear either 17" lineman boots or 14" doc's with my kilts with either a tshirt or a long sleeve shirt that is close to the same dominate color in the kilt I happen to be wearing at the time. The reason I prefer the tall boots is for safety reasons, living in West Texas and riding a bicycle (mequite thorns and cactus) the boots provide me needed protection to my lower legs.