Kilt is too long

[Bugbear]

With sewn-in pleat edges, you pretty much have to hem first. Think about turning that pinched, stitched pleat edge 180 degrees at the hem line -- no easy or pretty way to do it.

Ya, looking at it again, it is a very tight, rather than loose, blind hem stitch being used about an eighth of an inch from the edge on the canvas hem. The edge looks to have been surged or something like that.

On the other hand, they used some kind of zig-zag catch stitch to make the hem of the vertical edge of the top apron. It was a bit looser, and looked a lot like herringbone stitches. I widened the apron a little and replaced them with ten million herringbone hand-stitches a while back.