Quote Originally Posted by fluter View Post
46 true waist, 44 at the "Levi's waist," 46 hips. Sounds like a cylinder.

But if I'm reading correctly, there's a bit of an overhang at the tummy & "underhang" in the behinder parts. Sounds like a trapezoid.

I have inferred --- and I await being corrected by the experts! that the conventional approach is to measure the hips as though the line of the tummy continued straight down, so that the aprons will hang straight down from the true waist in front.
Trouble is that there is a disproportional apportionment, with the 46 up top mostly in the front and the 46 on the bottom out behind. This was one reason I thought to go straight to the traditional design in Barb's book. Somehow it seems that with "lower riding" kilts the narrower front panels just don't want to wrap evenly and the pleats on the side tend to want to flare outwards.

I loved the looks of the kilts on Celtic Thunder as well as the beauties that Matt has produced in tweed! My thought was for something like a garnet or maroon tweed, but before I cut anything, just wanted some sanity checking as I complete the figures of the appendix "B" type. THANK YOU GUYS!!!