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30th December 06, 05:02 PM
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Two pictures. I hope these help. This is my USAK casual, but it should be noted, ALL of my kilts do this, including my two stillwaters. The side pleat billows out, the front apron puckers over, and it billows out so badly that the first few pleats just behind the side pleat actually fall over and hang backwards. Folded over and hanging down over the billowed out part. Can you see what I am trying to say? Stillwaters even do it. My heavyweight isn't so bad, but the lighter weight Irish National is terrible... About six pleats or so in the back actually fold over themselves to the left and you can see the inside section of the pleat hanging on the outside. The other side of the kilt, the right side, it does this as well. It never hangs right. It always puckers over, curls around, and makes the rear pleats hanging next to it curl over and hang off to the side. The inside aprons are bad too, always slipping off my thigh, sliding to the middle, and then slipping between my legs where it bangs up against me, rubs between my thighs, and causes the outer apron to hang in ways God never intended. On my Irish National Stillwater, I can't even pull the inner apron over to hang on my hipbone... It hangs almost perfectly aligned with my inner thigh. Which causes no end of difficulty. Not so sure if I could snap a picture of that though. 
I think I just discovered something new, at least to me. I had never before really thought about how size below the hips could effect out a kilt hangs.
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