Quote Originally Posted by Dixiecat View Post
Kilt making takes the difference between the hips and the waist and puts that difference in the back so that the front apron lies smooth. While it works for most people, it's not perfect. Especially for someone who has a small front waist compared to front hip. You can't always take all the front difference and move to the back.
I can't help struggling with that statement... When I make kilts, as per TAoK, the aprons do taper from the bottom of the fell to the hip line, so that a fair bit of the hip/waist differential is compensated for in the front of the kilt. But, as the differential is taken in on each side of the apron, the apron edges will appear to be horizontal from waist to hip even if there's a significant taper, and the aprons do lie smooth in the front of the kilt (no darts there).

But I am no professional, I've only ever made four kilts, one of which not according to traditional standards.