The note turned novella I sent the gal I am working with:

Good Morning Katie,

I'll let you know how they are. I will bear the cost at this price as we are still prototyping. I didn't think of this one until I got a nylon tricot "kilt liner" in the mail yesterday. It was a real hobble skirt. I found out why when I washed and stretched it - they had hemmed it on this stretch material with a non stretch stitch. (eye roll here ). I went ahead and stretched it breaking most if the hem stitches - problem solved - most tricots don't fray. If it does I'll zigzag it stretched. I'm OK on the sewing machine but I go nuts trying to stitch a stretch waistband to a non stretch fabric. Ergo , I bow to your expertise. This is the link to the post string I put on the X Marks the Scot forum site:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-tricot-73282/



Few of these guys (and gals) have the skill or equipment to make slips or to clean and press these wool kilts. My momma raised me right - LOL.



There is about 16,000 members on this international site. We are all making do with long shirt tails, over sized boxers with the crotch cut out, ladies half slips and various homemade t-shirt half slips. Even in Scotland it's difficult to find cleaners for the wool kilts - very few cleaners know how or are willing to take the time to reset and press the pleats. I bought a Sullivan hobby table and ironing board cover so I can do it myself. It's 36 by 60 inches and barely large enough to lay out the pleats and top apron in my kilts (and I'm skinny!) for the pressing with a cloth - still can't slide the iron, must pick up and reposition the iron.
After its pressed and allowed to rest and fully dry on the table, the pleats and pattern hold like iron in good wool and "rump pressed" wrinkles don't hold. To keep things interesting, kilts are tailored from waist to the hip fall line, about 1/3 of their length, most kilt makers sew down the pleats in this area - my thanks to them - LOL. It's still a good hour to set and press. Wool kilts cost between $150 for econo off the shelf kilts to well over $1000 for hand stitched, you provide the fabric, 7 - 9 yards of fine wool in your family tartan. Many commission, one of a few mills, to do short runs for this, at big bucks, for a few hundred yards. The fabric, like the kilts, gets passed down from generation to generation - to say these guys are picky about caring for them and who gets "the honor" of cleaning and pressing them is an understatement. - LOL.



All this info to let you know why there is a howling need for a decent kilt liner/underkilt for the kilted. Just to protect the kilt from us.