Curse you, blessed weight loss! *fistshake*

**Guinness>water** · 5th June 13, 05:36 AM

Hey Psynister,
Congrats on your first kilt and your weight loss! Your gonna love the kilt! Let me know when you want to piss off the cowboys.

This thread just poped up and I thought it might help you.

**Psynister** · 5th June 13, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by Guinness>water

Hey Psynister,
Congrats on your first kilt and your weight loss! Your gonna love the kilt! Let me know when you want to piss off the cowboys.

This thread just poped up and I thought it might help you.

Thanks. Looks like both of us are shrinking out of our kilts here!

I was just looking at that thread when I got the notification of your reply here. The link he has talks about doing exactly what I was planning to do with it, so I'm glad to see I'm on the right track there. As soon as I get those changes made, I'll give you a call.

**WillowEstate** · 5th June 13, 08:53 AM

Well done on the weight loss! I've been there - not so much weight loss as bulk loss - turning what fat I had into muscle, which is denser. Chainsawing and disposing of sixty 40-50 foot ironwoods will do that! Long and short of it was I lost 4 inches from my waist and my legacy ex-military kilt with all of 2 inches adjustment did, indeed fall to the floor.

For what it's worth, I did as you propose and moved the buckles until I was sure that I had stabilized at that size. Then I had the kilt altered by shortening the front apron (as a military kilt, it had no belt on the inner apron) by a very experienced local kiltmaker.

She did a first class job and not only made the kilt fit perfectly but also restored the symmetry of the front of the front apron - the centre line was off centre to my right - no small task with a MacKenzie sett.

So I'd recommend the same - move the buckles (hand-sew) until you achieve your target weight, then get a formal alteration done or trade down to a kilt of the correct size (based on the centre hole of the straps).

Good luck.

**Gaulv** · 12th June 13, 12:55 PM

Just got mine in as well and seems a little lose from tartanista I plan to just wear a belt as I hope to lose more wait will doing so be a problem in any way ?

**Psynister** · 12th June 13, 01:06 PM

The problem I found with just wearing a belt is that the extra cloth kind of bunches up and I didn't care for the look of that. If it's just a little bit loose then it might not be a problem, but for me those inches that I lost turned out to be a big deal.

Since then, I have relocated all of my buckles and now it fits me pretty well.