Velcro fastening left hip

[Barb T]

In my view, Velcro is not stuff that is friendly to wool kilting fabric. Testing its effect by dabbing it against a scrap of tartan won't tell you what those teeny hooks will do to the kilt when you're wearing it with a belt, moving around, potentially grinding the hooks into the wool, etc. If it were me, I wouldn't put Velcro into a kilt.

Why don't you just put an interior buckle and in strap the kilt? If you don't have instructions, you can download the box pleat supplement that Matt Newsome and I wrote (https://www.theartofkiltmaking.com/files/126367176.pdf). These instructions show you exactly how to do it, and you don't need a buttonhole.