waist versus hips question

[cloves]

I'm gonna have to get a professional to do the measuring then. It seems that every time I measure my partner she has a bigger belly than hips.

I, like most women carry all of my weight on my hips, butt, and upper thighs.
Even though I have a tree trunk like body, there is slight hourglassing going on, my waist is slighly smaller than my hip measurment.
Her on the other hand is completely the opposite (or so it seems to me) No butt or thighs to speak of but instead she carries her weight alot higher, around the belly and boobs.

*sigh* I fear I might have to make a road trip to have a real kiltmaker measure her instead of doing it myself.

[ccga3359]

As I was kilted last night I threw the tape measure on around my hips and came up with 40" as opposed to measuring sans clothing at 37". I needed the kilt in order to see how the kilt will hang from my waist and I think that the added thickness of my kilt will add a fudge factor to that measurement. Is not the waist measurement the most important with the hip measurement being a looser measurement?