Has anyone had a dress, pleated-to-sett kilt resized?

[Celticman]

I just discovered this morning, that Stillwater kilts has a set of instructions on how to resize a kilt on their website, They are in Adobe format, and are quite easy to understand.

Excellent...I will look at them and bring them to a seamstress to see what can be done, thanks!

[Celticman]

Oops...looked all thru the Stillwater site and I can't find that information anywhere...where did you see it (post a link if you can)...thanks!

[bubba]

Oops...looked all thru the Stillwater site and I can't find that information anywhere...where did you see it (post a link if you can)...thanks!

Toward the bottom, the underlined word Here. http://www.stillwaterkilts.com/stdkilt.html

[Celticman]

Found it and saved it...thanks for the help.

[Barb T]

Unless you specifically request it, most kiltmakers will make a kilt smaller simply by making the apron and underapron smaller, rather than taking out pleats (which is a much bigger job, because it involves remaking the buttonhole and taking out more of the lining and canvas). So, if you really want to have someone remove pleats as well as making the apron and underapron smaller, you'll need to specify that, and it will cost. It may be that, at the cost of the alteration, a new kilt would be more desirable.

There are also instructions in my book for how to alter a kilt, if you're interested.

Cheers!

Barb