On one of my other groups I got a right roasting for suggesting that pleats should have some shaping between hip and waist.
We need references, expertise, knowledge - and I might add manners to the list.
Anne the Pleater
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed." -- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
On one of my other groups I got a right roasting for suggesting that pleats should have some shaping between hip and waist.
For me a crucial part of how a kilt fits, and stays in place, is how the middle of the pleated area conforms to the small of my back.
Oddly I wasn't aware that this was a thing until I got a kilt that didn't do that! It was like wearing a cardboard cylinder around my body, and the kilt wanted to slip down.
How kiltmakers achieve that, I have no idea.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
For me a crucial part of how a kilt fits, and stays in place, is how the middle of the pleated area conforms to the small of my back.
Oddly I wasn't aware that this was a thing until I got a kilt that didn't do that! It was like wearing a cardboard cylinder around my body, and the kilt wanted to slip down.
How kiltmakers achieve that, I have no idea.
I suspect that it was already in the tailoring repertoire from when English men wore small clothes if they were posh and smocks if they were in the labouring classes.
Anne the Pleater
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed." -- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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