Hi

When you put the underapron strap of the kilt through the hole, the strap will go through the hole only until it hangs up on where it's stitched to the underapron. If you want to make the underapron tighter, and you try to do so by moving the buckle, instead of the strap, the strap won't go any farther through the hole, even though the buckle is in a different place. So, the underapron wouldn't be any tighter.

To make the underapron tighter, you need to move the strap toward the center of the underapron so that the "hang up place" where the strap stitching hits the hole is closer to the center of the underapron. That will allow you to wrap the underapron farther around the body and still have the strap buckled tightly.

Does that make sense?? I'll admit that I didn't think it through years ago when I had to move buckles for the first time on a kilt to make it tighter. I moved the underapron buckle and discovered, because I hadn't thought it through, that it didn't do anything!

Barb