SWK Economy Kilt Review

[TheKiltedCoder]

See Some assembly allowed....SWK wherein Perldog007 and I experimented with the fell of our SWK economies.

I'd do a better job today, being armed with Elsie & Barb's book. Then, I simply pinned at the fell line, allowing for about a half-inch taper; and sewed up the edge of each pleat, trying to make the stitches small and inconspicuous. It worked out very well.

If I had it to do over, I'd remove the belt loops, hip buckle, and possibly the waist buckle. As it was, these created a few spots where pleats were fixed down; I just left those in their original position.

Thanks much for the link. Sounds like you'd pretty much hit on the solution I was going to try (although I was planning on cheating a little bit).

I'm thinking about putting them on, and then just having the wife walk around and pin the fell as it sits on me, which should pretty much take care of the taper.

Then, I can just take it off, tack once at the fell line, iron the pleats, and stitch from there.

Sound like a viable strategy?

[Brewboy]

I have both. I prefer the Economy. I just like the straps and buckles. Either one is a great knock around kilt, though.

I get a lot of complements on my Economy black shadow tartan. You can't really see the shadow tartan, but most people say it looks rather fancy.

[hospitaller]

I'm thinking about putting them on, and then just having the wife walk around and pin the fell as it sits on me, which should pretty much take care of the taper.

Then, I can just take it off, tack once at the fell line, iron the pleats, and stitch from there.

Sound like a viable strategy?

This is the exact same thing I had just done with my new SWK Black Watch Economy.

I am a measured size 48 and ordered a size 44 (the original size 48 fell to the floor it was so big).

I put the new 44 on, second hole on the straps, and then my wife walked around pinning the fell, and poking me more than once I'm sorry to say.

So after she pinned it, I took it off basted it and then proceeded to sew the fell and it now fits like a glove, what with it being 2 sizes smaller than I should be wearing.