modern kilt with adjustable waist?

[The Wizard of BC]

corbomonster,

I'm very sorry but I am not going to be able to help you with a kilt under $100.00

The fabric and materials (straps/buckles, thread, Molle webbing, etc.) alone, for a kilt in solid colored Poly/Cotton fabric, are over $50.00.

Paying my staff a decent living wage, paying the electric bill and all the other things needed to keep a kilt shop open, would mean that they would need to be able to make your kilt in less than 2 hours.

I'm sorry, but I just can't realistically manage that. I guess your best bet is to find someone with no overhead, who is importing their stuff from somewhere that $4.00 an hour is a working wage and who requires each employee to produce 10 garments per hour.
Don't give up hope. I get emails every week from the companies selling many of the exact same garments you have been asking about. The going rate for one of these imports is $12.00 us dollars.
One of these companies is bound to take up your idea, and flood the market with them, very soon.

[corbmonster]

And that's why I said what I'm looking for doesn't exist.

[corbmonster]

I could have done without all the fancy pockets and all that. I was really just curious if their was a modern kilt with adjustable waist. The Only one that comes close if one offered by celtic croft, and I think you have to go to them to get sized I believe. Veritas is also close with them being on sale.

[ratspike]

Looking at the canvas kilts that Celtic Croft offers, and at the Verillas kilts, they look like the same imported kilts everyone else has for sale. Do you know someone with solid sewing skills? You could certainly mod a Pakistani kilt with some Velcro or webbing and a side release buckle so that the waist is adjustable. Taking it a step further, you could remove the pockets, sew some webbing in their place, and pick up a small MOLLE compatible pouch or two for your pockets.

[corbmonster]

Sadly I do not. Like I said somewhere else in the post, I'd love to pick sewing back up as a hobby. But it will have to wait. I also realized that the High end UT kilts are "adjustable" since they fasten by velcro in the front. But I really do not like velcro.

[GG]

Corbmonster, I don’t know the company, I don’t know their kilts, but the seller claims this kilt http://scottishkiltshop.com/buy-cust...luxe-kilt.html is
adjustable in the waist. And the price is within your budget. You can have it in various colors and in your preferred length, what is unusual with inexpensive kilts.

[ratspike]

Sadly I do not. Like I said somewhere else in the post, I'd love to pick sewing back up as a hobby. But it will have to wait. I also realized that the High end UT kilts are "adjustable" since they fasten by velcro in the front. But I really do not like velcro.

Copy that. If you do get to a place where modifying one of these is something you're considering, I'd be happy to do the sewing for you. No charge, just cover shipping. Hit me with a PM if you'd like to chat about it a bit.

[Pleater]

Having fitted myself out with kilts during the time I was losing 12 inches off my waist, I could not come up with a slick way to make a kilt which was adjustable more than a couple of inches. I just had to take them apart and remake them smaller.

If your change in size is regular, then probably having two sets of kilts, one suitable for the larger waist size and one for the smaller is going to be the most cost effective way to get around the problem.

If the size change is seasonal then you could perhaps buy a kilt of good quality to suit the weather and your size at that time of year.

The key to reducing my waist size was carbohydrate reduction in the diet. It seemed difficult at first, but after the shock of losing six inches in circumference very quickly it seemed well worth persevering.


Anne the Pleater :ootd: