Quote Originally Posted by Planopiper
The newer, cheaper, less structured kilt-like garments and kilt wannabes don’t have the same construction. That’s why many of them look, to me, sloppy on a man and can be worn by a woman without alteration.
The cheap kilt I bought (the only 'real' one I have encountered in the cloth) is straight up and down, with a piece of nasty cheap flawed cotton sewn in across the back pleats to hold them - irregularly, in 'place'

It is the exact opposite of something that would fit a typical female shape.

I need a shorter wider fell than the typical man - from what I can find out online, and the suppresion of the pleats needs to be concentrated in the middle half of the pleats, and can be abandoned in the pleats at the edges which just fall straight down.

This might be due to my still quite active lifestyle, a lot of walking and cycling - despite being rather overweight I lack the typical female padding on the rump. I have never uttered the DMBLBIT question - (you'll understand if I ever dare to post a photo) - that is always fine, its everywhere else thats the problem.

As I can make almost anything in the clothing and household line I am sometimes surprised at what people regard as acceptable quality of fit and manufacture.

Maybe pipe bands need to seek out someone to smarten them up and get their uniforms properly fitted.

I often see dance teams, traditional English dance and song is another of my passions, and it really shows when one or two of them have got the skill to make and fit clothes. Some of the more punk - or is it Goth now(?) look truly amazing. Even the more staid ones can look really neat.