Looks and why they work.

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Personally, I think a kilt looks better when you can see some leg because it emphasizes that one is unbirfurcated. This plays out in two ways.

The first situation is when a kilt is worn with hose or tall boots. In this case, I think it looks better to have the kilt fall somewhere just above the knee to as low as the middle of the knee. Any lower than that and no skin will show, which looks sloppy and timid. Any higher and it starts to look like a schoolgirl kilt-skirt.

The second situation is when a kilt is worn without hose (or rolled/folded/scrunched hose) and with lower-cut footwear. In this case, I think it looks better to have the kilt fall somewhere from the middle of the knee to as low as just below the knee. The reason for why this looks better to me is probably because it balances the look by pulling the eye down and covers a bit more of the top of the leg while the bottom is more exposed.