Building a kilt from two regimental kilts?

[Barb T]

I was thinking that with the longer rise in the military models I would have a little lenth to work with...is this true?

The longer rise doesn't actually help, because you can't match up the tapered part of a pleat with the part in the rise, which isn't tapered. Each pleat tapers from hip to waist, which is at the center of the buckles, but from the center of the buckle to the top of the kilt, the pleat _doesn't_ taper any more. In fact, in a really well-made kilt, it should even flare a little between the center of the buckle and the top of the kilt so that the smallest dimension of the kilt is at the center buckle line. That way, when the kilt is buckled snuggly, the top of the kilt is a bit looser to accommodate flare of the body above the waist.

Barb

[fhpdo]

Thanks again Barb.....I just sent you a PM about another kilt I want to have made.
John