New Cargo Kilt From Freedom Kilts

[The Wizard of BC]

I am not the inventor of slope in kilts. In fact if you can find the photo that pops up on the forum every once in a while of the Royal Closet with kilts hanging in it you will see slope built into two of the three visible kilts. I am however, the only kiltmaker I know of, that builds slope into the design of every kilt we make.

But as an Engineer I could not ignore slope when I saw the big pucker in the front of the aprons of many kilts.

If you wear a 'traditionally' made kilt, at the natural waist, slope is not needed. The waist banding will be horzontal. But the lower you wear the waist of the kilt the more slope is apparant.

As I offer kilts, custom made to the waist position prefered by the customer, 99% of the kilts I make have at least some degree of slope.

I will caution anyone attempting slope to expect at least a few failures. It is not the 'beer gut cut' that some of you may be familiar with. It took me a while to figure out how best to do it. How it is done here at FK is sort of a trade secret. It involves 4 mirrors, the smoke of two pipes and lots of hand waving and chanting of the kiltmakers OM. "SWIIIISH", "SWIISH"