Looks like someone tried to add a bit of girth

**The Wizard of BC** · 13th August 18, 01:19 PM

um - if fabric were added to the outer apron, or to the pleated section, then yes the kilt would be larger. I don't see where fabric was added to the outer apron or to the pleated section.

If an attempt had been made to make the kilt larger by adding to the under apron only - the result would be the right side of the under apron showing from under the right side of the outer apron. In this case we should see some evidence where the buckles and straps had been moved. I am not seeing that.

**Barb T** · 13th August 18, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

um - if fabric were added to the outer apron, or to the pleated section, then yes the kilt would be larger. I don't see where fabric was added to the outer apron or to the pleated section.

If an attempt had been made to make the kilt larger by adding to the under apron only - the result would be the right side of the under apron showing from under the right side of the outer apron. In this case we should see some evidence where the buckles and straps had been moved. I am not seeing that.

It looks to me like someone larger than the most recent owner added the fabric, otherwise there would be no need to have the underapron strap sewn on so far back from the edge of the underapron. Given the length of the strap and the distance across the underapron to the underapron strap, my bet would be that you could just barely reach the buckles at the fringe edge with the buckles where they are. My guess is that the person who originally added the fabric would have had to move those buckles but that the most recent owner, who was smaller, would have moved them back, as he did with the underapron strap.

Or, maybe the original person just used strap extenders - that's what the folks in our band do when the underapron edge shows a whole bunch and the fringe edge straps can't reach the buckles. And that's actually preferable to moving the buckles into the underapron, which you'd have to do if the kilt was way too small. There isn't enough support for the buckles in the fabric of the underapron, so strap extenders are a better choice.