Having a Kilt Taken in

[bonnie heather]

I'm sure Steve will give you excellent advice!

If you end up deciding to have your kilt altered, I can offer my services, if you'd like. I'm not far from Danbury CT.

For more than 9 years I've been making kilts professionally, and have done more than 220 alterations.

By the way, I'm an advertiser on the XMarks forum.

[jhockin]

You could just move the straps/buckles, as Barb outlines here:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-larger-78931/

I have done this on ( most of) my kilts, due to 3" weight loss.

[Grunthos]

You could just move the straps/buckles, as Barb outlines here:
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-larger-78931/

I recommend this approach and found it was quite easy, if you only need to reduce up to 2 or 3 inches.

If you need to remove more than that, it is a little trickier. I tried it to remove about 6 inches, and it worked and looked fine while I was standing around. But whenever I sat down and stood back up, the extra pleats bunched up behind the front apron, and I had to straighten them out with a shake. Not the biggest problem in the world, but I'd rather do without it. I re-did the under apron and reverse pleat to take up the excess.

So use the easy buckle moving technique if you only need to remove up to 2 or 3 inches, or if you are mostly standing while wearing it, or only wear it once a year or so. If not, then look into adjusting the under-apron and reverse pleat to make it fit better (or sell it and swap for a smaller kilt )

If you can put thread in a needle, you can do the strap adjustment. Just follow Barb's posting above and it's pretty straightforward.

[ctbuchanan]

I'm sure Steve will give you excellent advice!

If you end up deciding to have your kilt altered, I can offer my services, if you'd like. I'm not far from Danbury CT.

For more than 9 years I've been making kilts professionally, and have done more than 220 alterations.

By the way, I'm an advertiser on the XMarks forum.

I can recommend Bonnie - she's made me a kilt and altered another one. Very satisfied with the work and she's just over the NY border from Ridgefield.

[marypenny]

May I just chime in as an unpaid advert for Bonnie Green? She made my husband's Red Robertson, pleated to the sett. Turned out beautifully. I highly recommend her!

[Kamilavalamp]

Thanks Bonnie you did a great Job on it!!
I love it and it fits like new!!!

Thanks to everybody for recommending Bonnie!!

[GrainReaper]

Thanks Bonnie you did a great Job on it!!
I love it and it fits like new!!!

Thanks to everybody for recommending Bonnie!!

Fits like new? Ugg I like my kilts broken in a bit....

I kid! Congrats on that new kilt feeling!

[Barb T]

Moving the buckles and straps on a kilt is a simple job and can certainly be done by anyone who is handy with a needle. And, quite frankly, because it doesn't involve any cutting of the tartan, _anyone_ can give it a go without disaster, and even have a couple goes without disaster. So, my advice to anyone who's interested (and I realize it's water over the dam in this case) would be to try it yourself, or ask someone who sews to do it, and you can have a kilt that fits well without having to send it off to anyone!

Instructions are here: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-larger-78931/ Me, I think it's important to enable people to do their own work!

[GrainReaper]

I moved the buckles and straps myself on a kilt and I have zero sewing ability, it took me all of 15 minutes after reading how to do it..