Yes, Creative Accents, by all means, measure according to your kiltmaker's (or your kiltmaking book's) directions. I'm not suggesting otherwise. I was simply trying to explain how one's actual seat circumference can be the same or even smaller than one's waist circumference, but that building the kilt this way may not make for the best fit.

Steve, thanks for the tip--I'll have to check out your measuring instructions. The "cardboard trick" I refer to is the one I saw my grandmother use in the 1960s. We used shirt cardboard for a lot of things where I grew up.

Moosedog