What about the hips?
One of the easiest way to tell if the Hip size of your kilt is correct is to put on the kilt and look in a mirror.
If the hip measurement of your kilt is too big you may see some "shower curtain" like waves or folds in the back of your kilt.
If the hip measurement of your kilt is too small the aprons will not overlap properly.
So let's go back to the gray kilt and find out what the hip measurement is.
Just as when we looked at the drop and the waist, finding out the hip size is a little more complex than at first glance.
Does everyone here understand what the word Fell means?
Simply put, the Fell Area of a kilt is the part in the back where the pleats are tapered and sewn down.
A traditional kilt is made with the length of the Fell about 1/3 the length of the total length of the kilt.
This is the Drop length + the Rise length.
In this photo you can see the ruler with "0" at the top of the kilt and a sticky note showing the bottom of the Fell area.
The total length of this kilt is 25".
The length of the Fell is 8.33"
All you need to do is stretch your tape measure along the kilt just as you did to measure the waist but now down equal to the bottom of the Fell area.
The Hip measurement of this kilt is 42".
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