2 things learned last week. 1 good, 1 bad

[DWFII]

I may have been the one (or possibly one of the ones) that suggested the idea of cutting the boxer shorts.

The solution to your problem is simple and it is the one I use...most boxer shorts are seamed fore and aft, leaving the legs as one piece of fabric. Cut along the seams and eliminate one leg. Trim the other so that it is just a rectangle of silk attached to the waist band.

Wear the silk in the front...without the rear to scrunch up and ride up when you sit and shift, it will remain neatly in place, providing a comfort zone and a barrier to scratchy wool.

An alternative solution is simply to detach the front from the rear so that they hang separately. But you will still have the problem of bunching in the seat.

The ideal colour, of course, is black but there will always be some who insist on white or cream.

[The Wizard of BC]

Another experiment you can try for no. 1 is to make yourself an UnderKilt.
Take a standard t-shirt and cut it off just under the armpits.
Then unstitch the 1" waistband from a pair of jocky shorts. Be carefull and note how the stitching is done.
Then stretching the elastic sew the top of the t-shirt to the waistband just as it was done to the shorts.
voila...UnderKilt. It will be long. That's not a problem because as you saw with the cut away boxers it will ride up a bit and not show under the Kilt.

Now for no. 2

The UK is supposed to curl. It is sort of built in. Steven likes his product to have a Seattle Grunge look.
The only thing you can do is iron your UK's. A lot. Iron the bejeebers out of them each time you wash them. Use and iron on a hot, Cotton setting. Pull and lightly stretch each and every pleat edge until the stitching is stretched and taut.
Cotton and Poly/Cottons have the strange quality that they get better and better the more you iron them.
The edge stitching also is part of the problem as it will shrink and pull up on the pleat creases causing them to curl.

If ironing doesn't work the only thing left to do is take a small tuck on each inside pleat. You will form a small pucker in the inside of each pleat and this will allow the pleats to lay flatter.

To see what I mean try this.

Hole the Kilt from the waistband and reach inside on one pleat that is curling. Now pull up slightly on the inside pleat crease. You will see the outer pleat crease fold back in. Now do the same thing with a couple of stitches.


Dan R. Porter - The same idea applies to your curling reverse pleat. The reason they curl is simply poor tailoring when the Kilt was made.
So do the same experiment with pulling the inner pleat crease. Then take a small stitch till a pucker forms and this should help with that pesky curling.


Note----this stitching is not meant to repair a poorly made Kilt. It is only a stopgap to help control pleat curling. It will not correct it completely.

[Bugbear]

The ideal colour, of course, is black but there will always be some who insist on white or cream.

[JolyStNicholas]

I resolved that #1 problem, several eons ago my wife began buying me silk boxers w/ comic SANTA reliefs on them. They work fine, and if anyone insists on seeing what's under the kilt they get a funny/pleasant shock! I'm to old to be modest!