skirtingtoday wrote:I am 5' 11' and about 165lbs (11 stone 11lbs) and regularly wear 14" long skirts. They are Denim minis (2No) and a black faux-leather one.
I tried to post a pic or two but I need to reduce the size before I can add them.
I only wear skirts above the knee which is 24" on me.
I have said this before...True waist is measured at the indentation between the top of the hip bone
and the side of the rib cage ....One can actually find this position by gently searching with ones
fingers.....If one looks in a full length mirror the inward curving of the male form is usually visible
in the view of the male outline shape from the front...
Many folks are not aware of this position as their lower garments may be designed to a more
modern style to sit on their hips.
When a traditional civilian male Kilt is worn, the buckles should hold the Kilt at the height of the
true waist. ...If the waist buckles are pulled comfortably tight when the waist band is horizontal at the back and front, the Kilt should support itself for the wearers use during the day......
The Traditional Top of the waistband is 2 inches higher than the true waist......
This means that the drop of the Kilt from the top of the waistband is two inches longer than
the measurement from the true waist to the top of the kneecap.
When one is wearing a " Traditional skirt "... the measurement for the length of the skirt is
normally from the waist band at the true waist to say the top of the knee cap.
This gives a good yardstick to work from.
As an example...say I wear a 20 inch Kilt ...this gives my waist as being 18 ins above the top of
my knee cap......My pleated female sports kilt skirt is 16 ins long ...
the waist band is at my true waist ...so the hem is two inches above the top of my knee cap.
I have said before that female school uniform skirts must be worn no more than 4ins above the
kneecap.......to which part of the kneecap are the school regs referring. ?....
If I suggest that this is traditional male Kilt height......top of the kneecap ....so shortest school skirt
I would wear would be 18 - 4 = 14 inches . you may think this is a bit short however My height is 5 ft 3ins
If you look again you will see my sports kilt skirt is 2 ins longer than the shortest uniform skirt I can wear.
So perhaps the school reg refers to a measurement from the middle of the kneecap
This would indicate that my school skirt must be no shorter than my sports skirt.
Please note these measurements are given for a retired male.....If I were a 5 ft 3 ins schoolgirl
my waist would probably be 24 to 28 ins so the skirt length would be different.
In a previous post I refered to going into a school shop and buying a school uniform tartan
kilt skirt.....The skirt in my size was the same length as my traditional Scottish Kilt to the
top of my knee cap........You homework today is to clarify how you can tell if I am wearing a
made to measure Traditional Scottish Civilian Kilt or a School Girls Uniform Kilt Skirt .
The man in the street cannot tell the difference ........
) everything is fine 
21" is the shortest I've gone 
