Casual Kilt at hip

[tpa]

It all depends how tall you are, and how high or low your waist is. I am only a little shorter than average, but have a long body and short legs. I have to wear a Sport Kilt quite high up, or it is way too long. I have read that it should go lower, but not on me I'm afraid.

Similarly, one of my traditional kilts is cut to a 20 inch drop, and that's not a bad fit. I have others that are a stock 24 inch drop, and they are passable, but some of you would think they are a little long.

I am the same. All my casual kilts are 20" from buckle centre to hem and are worn quite low down. My 24" and 23" kilts have to be worn higher but I don't find them as comfortable to sit in unless I allow them to drop down, which tends to happen anyway. These days the 24" one is mainly reserved for wear with my Montrose jacket, which does not happen very often!

[Dollander]

We may be confusing some terms.

A Casual or Casual style kilt is one that the from the outside will look like a Traditional style kilt but which does not have the internal construction elements that are the hallmarks of the Traditional style kilts.

A Sport or Pub style kilt will be the lowest common denominator yet still have pleats and resemble a kilt. Perfect for wear to the pub where you may spill a beer on it or a Highland Games athlete who is required to wear a kilt but who may destroy it and need a cheap replacement.

So the style of the kilt is determined by the construction not how it is worn.

A 21st Century kilt is a full traditional style designed to be worn lower.

Both Scotweb and Celtic Croft use the term "casual" to refer to their 5-yard kilts, available in both PV and wool, while USA Kilts' casual is exclusively PV and a much simpler design (e.g. velcro instead of straps and no fringe). Both Scotweb and USA Kilts indicate that their respective casual kilts are designed to be worn lower than a traditional kilt, and Celtic Croft mentions that it's an option for theirs, though there's nothing mentioned about adjusting the fell length if that's the customer's intention. So really there's no hard-and-fast definition of what a casual kilt is, other than not being a traditional 8-yard kilt...though like I said, there is at least a tendency for them to be designed to be worn lower.