42w 45h split

[Barb T]

Depends on how you did your hip measurement. If you have a bit of a tum, don't measure your hips directly over your pants. Take a towel and kind of fill the space under your tummy, and measure around your hips in the back and around the towel in the front. That will give you a hip measurement that will let the kilt apron hang straight down from your waist in the front and give you some room to taper the pleats and tuck the kilt into the small of your back. Then, split the hip measurement evenly, and things will be good. Here are a couple pics.

In the kilt below, the hips were measured directly around the body. As a consequence the kilt fits around the waist at the top and under the belly around the hips - there isn't enough in the hips for the kilt to hang straight down. Because the hips are snug, the kilt is an odd tilted cylinder, and the pleats don't hang straight - the first pleat flops forward.



Here is THE SAME GUY in a kilt where inches were added to the hip measurement to make sure that the apron hangs straight down in the front. The easiest way to do this is to measure using the "towel method" described above. And you'll notice that he looks a LOT slimmer!!