Flattering kilts for ladies?

[The Wizard of BC]

A lot depends on your personal style sense and how you feel in your kilt. Just as with us guy type persons a lot also depends on what you wear with your kilt. The accessories make the outfit as they say. And the greatest accessory is your smile.
A lady who knows she looks good and smiles in confidance can make any outfit shine.

The kilt itself will depend on your particular body shape. Strangly enough even women with mature figures look good when the kilt is shaped properly. One great example is Barb T. here and her daughter. They both look incredable in their kilts while having figures that many women today have trouble finding off the rack clothes to fit. That is not a problem with the shape it is a problem with today's clothing.

Try looking around the photo galleries a bit for other women in kilts and decide which hem length you like. And inch or two above the knee to just below the calf seem to be the lengths that are most popular.

Then look at pleating styles. Whether the kilt is pleated to the Sett or to the Stripe will depend on the Tartan and the woman's personal taste.

And finally it has to do with the construction of the kilt. Here is where you don't want to skip with your fabric choice and construction details. "The Art of Kiltmaking" is the primary source on making a Traditional kilt and in it is everything you need along with tips on how to fit a kilt to any figure in the most flattering way.

Then when you are ready to post photos of your new kilt here remember that most important accessory. Your confidant smile.
If the smile is not there at first I am confidant that the comments of approval you will get from all the guys here will put the smile on your face and the swagger in your step.

[AKScott]

A lady who knows she looks good and smiles in confidance can make any outfit shine.

Quoted for truth. Pick among the designs in which you know you will be able to don a dazzling smile.

[Dixiecat]

What looks fab on the ladies of this forum?

You know that what looks fab on others may not be flattering to you. Just think of a style that you like and looks good on you and imagine it in tartan!

I love my kilt. I made it according to The Art of Kiltmaking (thanks Barb!). I personally like a kilt at top of knee length. The swing is fantastic and the swish as I walk is so satisfying. If you were to make a kilt, I would suggest forgoing the rise above the waist and fit it directly to your waist.

I do love the idea of a tailored tartan skirt with walking pleats. There's some very nice patterns that are particularly suited to tartans:

http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m552...hp?page_id=113
and
http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v860...hp?page_id=263

There are lots of ways to use tartan. You are only limited by your imagination!

[sydnie7]

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I do love the idea of a tailored tartan skirt with walking pleats. There's some very nice patterns that are particularly suited to tartans:

http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m552...hp?page_id=113
and
http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v860...hp?page_id=263

If, like me, you like the looks of that first one -- be advised that Joanne's has McCall's patterns on sale for 99 cents starting today (not sure how long it lasts). Just picked one up for future use.

Thanks, Dixiecat!

[piperdbh]

-- be advised that Joanne's has McCall's patterns on sale for 99 cents starting today (not sure how long it lasts).

... Hancock's will have them for 99 cents starting the 20th of April. However, the OP is in Wales, so that might be a bit of an obstacle for her. The rest of us can get the patterns during these sales.