Quote Originally Posted by RockyR View Post
That's why we always tell people to use the measuring instructions on EACH KILTMAKER'S site... different makers do things differently and may need different measurements. Heck, look at Steve Ashton's (FK's) measuring instructions... he gives you a video!
Of course! And the best of all possible situations is to be able to have a face-to-face fitting. That way any problems can be caught early on.

I'm going through a return right now, that I don't know how else the problem could have been handled. I gave my measurements, the absolute best that I could, and still ended up having to send the kilt back to be tweaked. I don't think this was a problem with the kilt maker, maybe just a peculiarity of my body. Well, now that I think about it, I do have a non-standard body….

Maybe someday, we will be able to scan our body into a measuring machine like the movies, and have a perfect product come out.

When I was growing up, we once lived close to a seamstress that made custom women's dresses. She had an adjustable wooden mannequin (womanequin? ) that she could dial-in or adjust the sizes somehow, and she sewed parts of the stuff right on the dummy. The expensive tailors also demand personal measurements. I have a shirt maker in Mexico City that has my measurements on file, and he can make a perfect shirt for me everytime, but I went to his shop and he measured me.

Being able to visit our kiltmaker is a luxury that most of us don’t have, so we must be extra careful.