Third Strap Solution

[Bugbear]

The odd thing is that the left hand buckle, next to the buttonhole, is not sewn under the fell of a pleat, but the right hand buckle, up on the waist, is under the fell just like the third buckle... I have no idea why. It's that way on both the standard and the wool.

Anyway, I'm just going to leave that third strap attached to the underapron for now. I'm done with this round of surgery on that kilt, and so far, so good.

I'm also still slowly saving up for a kilt in my tartan.

[Bugbear]

The odd thing is that the left hand buckle, next to the buttonhole, is not sewn under the fell of a pleat, but the right hand buckle, up on the waist, is under the fell just like the third buckle... I have no idea why. It's that way on both the standard and the wool.

Anyway, I'm just going to leave that third strap attached to the underapron for now. I'm done with this round of surgery on that kilt, and so far, so good.

I'm also still slowly saving up for a kilt in my tartan.

I need to make a small correction to that.
I said the buckle tab that is next to the buttonhole is not sewn under a pleat at the fell. This turns out to not be the case. Because the pleats are all going the same direction, but the buckle tabs are aimed toward each other, the left side tab was turned back on itself after being sewn under the pleat with the fell stitching.

I did a few experiments with the acrylic kilt. I took off the two straps for the waist, while working on something else. I was able to sew them back on in the correct way without any trouble. However, I did notice that the fabric was slightly deformed from where the facings went around the strap. That is a little of the worry I have with cutting off the buckle tabs, though the straps are much thicker than the fabric of the buckle tabs. There probably won't be too much slack in that tab area. I'm not as worried about the slack in the fell of the waist buckle tabs as with that lower buckle and it's pleat.

I might test out removing the lower buckle tab on the acrylic kilt. I'm testing out some different ways to interface the acrylic anyway.

And all this is not so important as saving up for the traditionally made kilt in my tartan; it does give me something kilt related to do as I have said.

[CoreyMacLeod]

AWESOME! New guy can contribute something here. The third strap is actually a military thing. A military kilt's rise is about a 4" rise above the waist. A civilian kilt has about a 2" rise above the waist. The extra strap was necessary because of the added rise.

Stole this information from http://blog.albanach.org/2005/08/why...lt-straps.html

[Iolaus]

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Stole this information from http://blog.albanach.org/2005/08/why...lt-straps.html

Speaking of Matt... I want to say that it was he who, a few years ago, saw and posted pics of a unique set up. An acquaintance of his had a single-strap kilt - one long strap, anchored on the under-apron at the left, and wrapping around the back to attach to a buckle (actually, I think it was D-rings) on the right, and doing away with the third buckle altogether. Such a system offers virtually unlimited "surgical" adjustment at just one point - the attachment of the strap to the under-apron.

[Bugbear]

I've seen those discussions. This is a Stillwater kilt, and not a traditional kilt. It is not constructed in the same way as a traditional kilt.