Yeah depending on the size of the sett and the size of the persons hips tells you weather you have a 5yrd or 6yrd I personally perfer 8yrds in the PV but when I made wool kilts for those persons 44 and up the amount of fabric increases I just finished a kilt for a customer and this issue came up kilt was completed no problems .
Basically I agree with Rocky maybe I shopuld have said that in the beginning