Front apron left pleat not laying flat

[Barb T]

Even though you say you have it buckled high enough, it still does not look to me like the buckles are at your true waist. The top of the kilt should be 2" above your true waist (not 2" above where you wear your jeans, but 2" above your true waist). That would put the bottom of the fell (the stitched part of the pleats) at the widest part of your buttocks. Where you're wearing the kilt in the pics, the bottom of the fell is about 2" below that, which is one reason why the back looks so odd. That contributes to the "wave" (i.e., the pleats aren't lying flat), although it may be that there's too much in the pleats at the hips and not enough in the apron (i.e., the splits might be off, but it's hard to tell with the kilt not sitting at the right height).

Having said all that, wearing a kilt at the proper height requires that the kilt flares above the buckle line - this allows you to buckle the kilt tightly at the waist and have the kilt actually stay there. It looks to me like your kilt tapers all the way to the top of the rise (i.e., it's smallest around at the top of the kilt, not at the buckle line). If that's true, it will be impossible to buckle the kilt tightly at your true waist and have it stay there. So you might not actually be able to keep it at the right height.

Realize that the hip buckle is purely decorative and doesn't do anything to hold the kilt on. If you buckle the hip buckle tightly, it pull across the front of the kilt. So, when you put your kilt on, don't buckle the hip buckle tightly - buckle it so that the apron of the kilt hangs as it would if there were no buckle there. Also, the hip buckle also seems low to me, although it might just be because the kilt is too low.

I would also not likely put as much flare in the apron edge, and I would curve it more so that, at the bottom edge, it's not pointy.

Oops - sorry for duplication on some of the of ideas - I missed Steve's and Tobus' posts when I wrote the above.