Quote Originally Posted by arrogcow
But that's what the BGC is for. Either your gut pushes the front down or your butt causes the back to ride up. BGC makes the front a little longer so the hem is still paralel to the ground. Adam
It seems that the folks at UK became aware of this as a real issue and introduced the BGC. If it were only our imagination, I don't think they would have done it.

The name is misleading. You don't have to have a "beer gut" to end up with a shorter rear than front. A "bubble butt" also takes up extra material length, which slightly lifts the back hem.

Just having a "full" set of hips of even dispersion may not make much of a difference when standing, but when you sit and that extra body fat spreads out, it pushes the rear of the kilt out and back, allowing for less fabric to end up under your crotch.

That's why good kilt makers need that third measurement, the hips, so as to compensate for that effect. Steve even has his customers to put the measuring tape around the hips and then SIT DOWN to allow for the extra spread to be recorded.