Turning skirt into kilt

[kiltlady]

True, taper for men's kilts is generally 4"and taper for women's kilted skirts is at least 10". The bigger problem is that the insides of the pleats may be graded, that is, cut away to lessen bulk. If you picked out all the stitching, you may have big scallops cut out of the yardage which would make a different pleat size difficult, if not impossible. I have made plenty of box pleat kilts and I usually need 4 yards. Now, many tartans yardages are double width, meaning that the wool is 56 - 60 inches wide and since a kilt is generally 20 - 26 inches in length, one only needs 2 yards for a 4 yard kilt. Does that make sense?

Upshot is that if the kilted skirt on Ebay is more than 24" or so long, and there is four yards of fabric, and is NOT cut away from the waist to the drop line, there should be adequate fabric.

Next problem is that the pleats have been ironed/steamed into the fabric and will never totally disappear.
Hope this helps.