Mid rise kilt?? Such a thing?

[The Wizard of BC]

Not everyone wants to wear their kilt at Full Waist Height. Not everyone can due to body shape.

The ability to design and build a kilt that will fit where the customer chooses to wear the waist, or where the waist fits and looks best on him, is one of the primary tenets of the Contemporary kilt.

But you cannot just wear a Full Waist Height kilt lower. The bottom of the Fell will be below the hip line causing the kilt not to hang or move they way it should.

There is a bone in the leg from the knee up to the hips. The pleated length of the kilt will always be the same on the same guy. So if you lower the waist what changes is the length of the Fell. This changes the pleat taper and the aprons too.

The top strap in this photo shows Full Waist Height. The center strap shows Mid Waist Height and the Lower is of course Low
Waist Height.



This customer came to my shop with an Iconic style kilt with Full Waist Height. Frankly, due to his body shape it looked horrible. The waistbanding in the front kept riding up on top of his stomach.
So I made him this one. We put a strap around his body and wiggled it back and forth until it settled on his shape where it natually wanted to sit. We then measured him at that point and made this kilt.



From the side you can see that the back is significantly higher than the front.

But from the front and back everything looks normal.





I, on the other hand, are very capable of wearing a kilt at Full Waist Height. I just choose not to.

[6cuda6]

Thanks Steve....thats exactly what i was after....i suspect a lower waist would be the best for me. Guess one just needs to try these things on and then go from there or seek someone like yourself for a custom made one.

[Barb T]

Just as an alternate view, you might have a look at the following post, which shows that a kilt worn at full rise can actually be quite slimming for a larger gentleman:

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...h-split-94310/

[6cuda6]

Thanks! That very interesting and was exactly the kind of thing i was worried about....ill give that style of measuring a go and see how that compares.