Bob,

If you won't mind a newbie chiming in, I'd like to make a couple of comments.

HuDonald mentions that his 5.11 kilts are from the first production run of 5.11 TDK's, as are mine. These kilts were manufactured as a direct result of overwhelming response to what was, at the time, an April Fools' joke by 5.11. After they decided to make the kilt available, there were some growing pains ...I had ordered 44" kilts (at my natural waist) and after I received them, they literally fell off me. So I had to exchange them for kilts smaller than my natural waist. To put it plainly, compared to a proper kilt, they are marginal (unless you happen to have an off-the-shelf body, which I don't!), but at the time I only bought them because I didn't know anything about kilts.

That said, I'm not sure that half-assed is that much of an impediment to using velcro to take up the waist of a TDK. If it were the other way 'round, then the snaps would be an obvious problem, but I would consider velcro to be a viable solution to the OP's problem.

Anthony