Originally Posted by
figheadair
A hem was often put on a child's kilt to allow for growth, I've even seen the odd adult on done that way but it is invariably done when using poor quality cloth. A good quality cloth with a descent selvedge or, heaven forbid a tuck edge, does not need to be hemmed and doing so will affect the the movement of the cloth, and not in a good way.
Sadly in the Pipe Band world, where a "band set" of kilts might be worn for a half-century or longer, kilts are unceremoniously altered as needed to fit current band members.
Even though they're quality hand-stitched heavyweight wool kilts they get hemmed and un-hemmed repeatedly, have the straps and buckles moved and replaced, and even the horror of having a new hole cut in the kilt for the strap on the under-apron to pass through.
As the band's kilt-fixer I've un-done all sorts of things.
What can't be readily fixed are the holes in the upper-apron which invariably occur with bands who wear kilt pins.
Last edited by OC Richard; 6th September 24 at 07:41 AM.
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