Am I "lucky" or what?!

[Mipi]

It seems I'm not so lucky after all. The item did com yesterday but... I call it item for a reason; seller description was "women kilt", but it's "women skirt made of wool tartan"

What that means? It's very light tartan, and more important the pleats are very shallow. Pleated to nothing! Total length of fabric (at hem line) is 2.5 m only. Otherwise in a really very good condition, made by Highland Home Industries of 100% Pure New Wool (size 20). I'm not really disappointed while it was cheap and looks great. Tartan is similar to Gunn (but has yellow stripe instead of green).

So now, what are the options?

1. My wife could wear it, if I move the straps to make it a bit smaller (1 or 2"), if she decides to have it?!
2. Sell it, which I don't like to do, really
3. Take it apart and redo it into light summer kilt anyway.

If option 3 will take place, I would leave the ham (why to ham it again, right), but rather take it apart in waistband and pleats; they are not good anyway. Cut it back to 24" length. 6" band that I would get this way, I could cut into 5 peaces and re-saw them carefully into new underapron (matching sett as much as possible). This way I would end up with approx. 3m of tartan, which could be enough for box pleated kilt. Must do some calculations and test first.

Any other ideas?

Regards!

[Highland Logan]

It seems I'm not so lucky after all. The item did com yesterday but... I call it item for a reason; seller description was "women kilt", but it's "women skirt made of wool tartan"

What that means? It's very light tartan, and more important the pleats are very shallow. Pleated to nothing! Total length of fabric (at hem line) is 2.5 m only. Otherwise in a really very good condition, made by Highland Home Industries of 100% Pure New Wool (size 20). I'm not really disappointed while it was cheap and looks great. Tartan is similar to Gunn (but has yellow stripe instead of green).

So now, what are the options?

1. My wife could wear it, if I move the straps to make it a bit smaller (1 or 2"), if she decides to have it?!
2. Sell it, which I don't like to do, really
3. Take it apart and redo it into light summer kilt anyway.

If option 3 will take place, I would leave the ham (why to ham it again, right), but rather take it apart in waistband and pleats; they are not good anyway. Cut it back to 24" length. 6" band that I would get this way, I could cut into 5 peaces and re-saw them carefully into new underapron (matching sett as much as possible). This way I would end up with approx. 3m of tartan, which could be enough for box pleated kilt. Must do some calculations and test first.

Any other ideas?

Regards!

Like I thought... it's a skirt... move on.

Frank

[Pleater]

This is one reason why I want to wear 'real' kilts with lots of quality material in them.

I have a couple of similar pleated skirts - or I did until they were attacked by infant arthropods and eaten into holes. Now they are just spare cloth for recycling.

They are probably regarded as quality clothing by those selling them originally, and maybe those buying them originally, because the general quality of women's clothing is quite low.

You might find that the top part of the material will not quite match the rest when turned through 90 degrees, as the set is not precisely a square on many tartans.

I'd recommend that you line the apron, and perhaps the under apron too - the first to lend a bit of substance and give a better appearance, the latter to cover all the seams.

Anne the Pleater