waist versus hips question

[cacunn]

I asked a similar questions a few weeks ago. The thread is at.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=24339

Remember when measuring that the front apron will be hanging straight down from the navel area. If when you measure your rump the tape measure is behind the navel you need to adjust for this difference. My thought and the actual kilt makers will probably have a better method, is to face a wall, walk into the wall (very slowly) stop when you just touch. Now when you measure your rump does the front of the tape touch the wall? If not you will have to add some extra inches to get the hang, and taper right. How much I don't have enough experience to say.

[ccga3359]

I asked a similar questions a few weeks ago. The thread is at.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=24339

Remember when measuring that the front apron will be hanging straight down from the navel area. If when you measure your rump the tape measure is behind the navel you need to adjust for this difference. My thought and the actual kilt makers will probably have a better method, is to face a wall, walk into the wall (very slowly) stop when you just touch. Now when you measure your rump does the front of the tape touch the wall? If not you will have to add some extra inches to get the hang, and taper right. How much I don't have enough experience to say.

This makes sense! I glad I read this thread. Thanks cloves, cacunn. That could have been tragic.

[Barb T]

Two things:

A trad kilt is never made with smaller hips than waist. If the hips are actually smaller than the waist, the kilt is made as a cylinder using the _waist_ measurement.

A kiltmaker who is making at trad kilt for someone assumes that the kilt will be worn at the waist (actually waist plus a 2" rise above). A trad kilt is not cut lower in the front to accommodate a belly, so the kilt can't be worn properly and won't hang properly if it slopes from higher in the back to underneath the belly in the front. That's why trad kilts worn that way look odd (they typically are all rumpled up under the belly or sag in the front and are hiked up in the back).

And one last thing. If you are measuring to have a trad kilt made, don't do any "adjusting" of the measurements. Measure exactly as your kiltmaker asks you to!

Cheers,

B