About relocating the staps and buckles

[The Kilted Reverend]

So I have seen alot of things said about making kilts smaller. One of the easiest ways seems to be to move the buckles and straps. Here is the ? if I move the buckles on a kilt what about the whole on the left side does it move or does it stay in the same place.

I need some clarifiation as it is my hope that someday soon I will need to make a big kilt smaller.

Slainte,
Rev.

[fluter]

On the left side, move the strap on the under-apron. The edge of the underapron can "underlap" the buttonhole a bit. I actually like the way that fits together---learned this from my USAK semi-trad kilts.

On the right side, move the buckle by the same amount.

[ForresterModern]

You should only move the buckleson the right and the strap on the underapron/left. You can move them sometimes up to a couple inches each, depending on whether you have tartan tabs holding the buckkles or leather straps holding the buckles and how long your leather straps are. Tartan is harder because you would like to try to keep the lines aligned with teh tartan on the kilt and buckle but may not be able to. The hole for the under apron strap does not need to move. I have had two different kilts each brought in by 2 inches at the waist, and they look and work fine. I don't think you would want to go much further thanthat though, becasue the aprons begin to wrap around your sides too much after that.

[puckhead9]

Thanks for the info as I am also needing to make my first kilt smaller by a couple inches.

[The Kilted Reverend]

Now I understand.

Slainte,
Rev.

[ForresterModern]

If there are belt loops on your kilt, one side effect of moving the right buckles backwards on the fell to shorten the circumference is that the buckles then get closer to the right side belt loop and the whole back of the kilt shifts somewhat to the right. also as your apron wraps further back it also begins to cover the right edge of the pleats. That is why there is only so much you can try to get by moving the buckles.