Being measured in a kilt vs pants ?

[RockyR]

Our preference is to have the customer in shorts where their knees are visible. This way, the midsection around the navel is not compressed and easy to measure and the knees are visible for taking the length.

[Barb T]

But I have to underscore that it is CRITICAL to follow the instructions of YOUR kiltmaker. Different kiltmakers do measurements (and use them) differently, even though the finished kilt would fit exactly the same. Don't try to second-guess your kiltmaker, and don't go to a tailor to have the measurements done. Many tailors simply ignore specific measuring instructions for kilts, assuming that they know everything about measuring people for garments.

[The Wizard of BC]

I can't stress what Barb said enough. Always, always follow the instructions and preferences of the person who will be making your kilt.

Even when someone comes to me and asks to be measured for another kiltmaker I will go to that person's website and download the measuring sheet.

For example - If I am measuring for a kilt I will be making I know that drop means from the top of the waistband down to the hem.
If Barb will be making my kilt I know to measure Drop from the center of the top strap down to the hem.

If your kiltmaker asks you to be in jeans then be in jeans. Or wear your kilt to their shop and take a pair of jeans to be measured in.

[KD Burke]

It will not matter to a good kilt maker as he will also discuss and advise on your personal requirements for the kilt. Some kilt makers of my experiance will then tell you what they will or won't do! One particularly strong minded kilt maker, long gone now, of my aquaintance after listening to my requirements whilst measuring me up, quietly, but very firmly, suggested that it might be better to find another kilt maker! Needless to say I ended up with a perfectly fitted kilt made as the said kilt maker has always made them and I still see it about regularly some 50 years later!

Jock,

For as long as I've been around you've been the voice of tolerant traditionalism around here, so it shocks me to hear you once asked for something that a kilt maker was unwilling to accommodate! What could possibly have been so outrageous to his sensibilities that he would refuse your business?