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Higland kilts were worn with knee socks, but not kilt suits. We have found very few such examples. This is a little surprising as one reason kilt suits became popular was that they were based on a skirted garment worn by men. Yet we have found very few portraits of an American boy wearing a kilt suit with knee socks. We do note a few American boys wearing Highland kilts and they do wear knee socks rather than long stockings. This was decided not the case with kilt suits. Despite that the kilt name was widely used, they were almost never worn with knee socks. The few examples we have found came from the period in which the kilt suit was just appearing. And they are not tartan knee socks as were common with Highland Kilts.
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