Temporay Closet shrinkage Solution

**Bill** · 21st May 06, 12:45 PM

I stumbled acros a temporay solution for "closet shrinkage" this afternoon. I have a Lochcarron casual kilt in the Black Stewart Tartan a really nice kilt but I have been unable to wear it due to the fact that ye olde waistline has expanded somewhat (

). I am starting to take off a few inches but while I'm able to get it on it is still snug. Whilst taking a Sunday afternoon nap it hit me, why not take the extra straps I had for a kilt project and use them to temporarily extend the existing ones! I got up and took the straps and buckles I had and first threaded the new strap through the new buckle to what would be the tightest hole if were sewn in I then took the existing strap and threaded it through to the hole at the end of the old strap. When this was accomplished with all three straps I buckled everything up as normal and had a wearable fit without really changing anything and no sewing. What's nice about his is when the waist shrinks all I need do is remove the extensions and I'm good to go. The only thing it does is give the kilt an extra set of buckles which could be eliminated by using a brad to join the two straps together.

Hope you find this usefull.

Bill

Just got a good look at this in the mirror the extra buckle may be too much. I think the use of brads will be better.

**Scottish Chi** · 21st May 06, 01:53 PM

For those of us who are text challenged how about a picture. I just can't seem to get a mental image.

Cheers! Bill

**RockyR** · 22nd May 06, 12:11 PM

We sell them... effectively, it's a strap (or set of 3 to be exact) with a buckle attached to the fat end. It acts as a link between the existing strap and buckle.

**Riverkilt** · 22nd May 06, 12:36 PM

So, ummm, does it still look like a kilt? Guessing it would just shorten the underapron and the top apron would still look okay....??

Reason I ask is on my PKs, Jeff had the three places to hook it up, but on the hook for the fatest size it seemed that the underapron showed a lot on the right and it "looked funny."

Ron

**irishrob** · 22nd May 06, 01:39 PM

I had the shoe man make extension straps for a couple of my tanks that had shrunk in the closet over the winter. The extensions proved to be quite successful. You can find them in various places on ebay or from some of the vendors on this site. Sure is a lot easier than sending them to the kilt maker or the tailor.

**Bill** · 23rd May 06, 06:53 AM

Originally Posted by RockyR

We sell them... effectively, it's a strap (or set of 3 to be exact) with a buckle attached to the fat end. It acts as a link between the existing strap and buckle.

And here I thought I'd gone and got inspriated all by my lonesome.

Just goes to prove there is really nothing new under the sun guys. I hope it was helpful to someone out there though. It was nice to be able to wear that Black Stewart again. It's a nice kilt.

Bill