Looking for a tailor in New England USA

[Mackinnon61576]

Thank you all so much for your help in finding a way to get my kilt hemmed. Barb T. has very generously agreed to do the job.

I was amazed at the quickness of the response and the varied avenues you all suggested.

Thanks

Matt

[Barb T]

You really don't need a kilt maker to hem a kilt. Any tailor that you trust should be able to do the job well. Just stress to them that the hem must follow the line of the tartan exactly, and tell them to do a machine blind stitch.

EDIT EDIT: Did I mention that the hem on my father's kilt only set me back 20 bucks? Try getting a kilt maker to work for that! LOL...

The reason that a kiltmaker like me charges $40 to hem a kilt is that, done properly, it isn't as simple as Ryan suggests. You need to unstitch both the fringe edge and the underapron edge up about 10", and remove the little bits of hem that should be in a properly made kilt, as shown in this thread:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/l...778/index.html

Then you open everything flat and press it well to get out the creases. Then you turn up the hem parallel to a tartan stripe _except_ that you turn up an extra 1/2" at the point of the deep pleat and an extra inch tapering to the regular hem depth 9" from the underapron edge. If you don't do this, the corner of the underapron and the corner of the deep pleat will sag and show at the bottom of the kilt.

Then, the kiltmaker stitches the hem, presses the hem, sews both the fringe and underapron edges back together again, bastes the entire kilt, and presses it.

It is a job that takes several hours if it's done right. So don't scoff at a kiltmaker who charges $40 for this work, as I do.