how to size a kilt

[helloally]

HI,
I've discovered some kilts I used to wear Highland Dancing as well as some my mum and my step father wore to Pipe Band comps ... There is also a dress jacket ...I have no idea what size they are ... is there a way to measure and size them??
thanks in advance

[Steve Ashton]

Perhaps this hint and tip will help answer your question.

How to tell if your kilt is the size you think it is.
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=81662

[helloally]

ahh thank you I'll check it out

[helloally]

thank you so much .. I just had a look ... fabulous advice.

[tulloch]

Welcome, ally, to the forum from the highlands of Central Massachusetts, New England, USA, North America over here in the Northern Hemisphere!

Would love to see photos of what you and your family wore.

[rtown]

Hello and Welcome to xmarks

[ASinclair]

Hello helloally!

[OC Richard]

I'm sure those methods are correct and proper, but the thing is, there are people selling kilts on Ebay all the time who don't know how to find out the size of a kilt, and who don't know what an underapron or overapron is.

I have to tell them a method that people that know nothing about kilts can comprehend, and do.

I tell them to unbuckle the kilt and lay it out flat. I say to note that the kilt is in more or less equal thirds, a pleated third flanked by two upleated thirds. At each end of the whole thing there's a leather strap, oftentimes two straps at one end, but only one at the other end.

I tell them to measure the entire width, from the wool-edge to wool-edge, at the height where the straps are, and multiply this amount by .666

It doesn't account for the extra one inch you speak of, but I think it gives a rough notion of the size the kilt was originally made for.

The advantage to this method is that it's not affected by the aftermarket moving around of buckles and/or straps. However it is affected by somebody folding over the underapron to get a smaller size.