Doesn't match up - that's a relief.

With a view to countering the dip of the kilt back and coping with the shaping I need, I devised a cutting down of the waist band on a plain kilt.

First the aprons ware separated from the pleats by a small cut and shaped in at the top onto petersham. That meant there was no separate waistband on the aprons.

The pleats now stood up higher than the aprons, so I laid them out in a curve with the middle at about the level of the aprons - the supression seems to force a dip in the centre back. Then I checked the spacing of the pleats twice and basted the top of the pleats onto a waistband, level with the apron tops, and cut off the pleats standing above the waistband, making a straight line.

I still have lots to do on the kilt, but the shape does seem rather good. It is a small alteration, but it will give a better fit whilst not really doing a lot to the actual length of fabric.

I must start to take photographs or keep some record of how I do things - for good or ill.