Quote Originally Posted by Alan H View Post
The X-kilt is made with 3-inch box pleats as default, and I'd have to know your hip measurement to tell you roughly how many pleats it would have. However, making the wild guess assumption that you have hips around 42 inches, and since in the X-Kilt the pleats wrap-around the waist and up towards the front because the apron is narrow, I am going to GUESSTIMATE that you would have an X-kilt with 11 pleats. (It might be 10, it might be 12).

That would mean that the apron would be 9 inches wide. 11 x 3 = 33, and then 33 + 9 = 42.

Since you don't taper the first and last pleat in an X-Kilt (they're on your frontside, and the pleats drop down the fronts of your thighs), that means you have 9 pleats to work in 10 inches of taper. This is eminently do-able, though you may have a thick waistband when you're done. I usually work in a full inch of taper on the second and next-to-last pleats in an X-kilt, and often nearly that much in the 3rd and next-to-next-to-last pleat to build in lots of "wrap" to get the kilt to wrap around the sides of the wearers hips. You'd just continue to do that throughout the rest of the pleats.

Each pleat that was three inches wide at the hips would taper an inch, to about two inches wide at the waist. That's about the maximum taper, per pleat, tho.
Hmmm, This looks suspiciously like math, especially since I'm more like 36" at my widest point. oh and my usual method for pleating, which I refer to it as eyeballing probably won't work either. sigh