Hi everybody,

I have just (almost) completed my first kilt, with Barb's excellent advice, which I will wear tonight at our pre-Burns night Burns Night at my lodge. I will note that I was not quite prepared for a full rise traditional design, so I will wear this kilt mainly with a suit/waistcoat, etc. For everyday dress I am more partial to a mid-rise kilt, just below the navel.

So initially I thought that to make mid-rise kilt I would do the usual calculation: add 2 inches to my waist-knee drop, then divide by three, but then take two inches off the fell, so that it still ends at the widest part of the seat, but doing that would place the buckles either right in the band, or require a new measurement at the lower level where the buckles will sit at just below hebtrue waist. So there may also be implications for the splits at a different site, and other potential flow-on effects.

So does anyone have any guide for measurements, splits etc for lower kilt heights?

Thanks in advance.

Michael