Quote Originally Posted by Barb T. View Post
The following photo shows what happens when you wear a belt through loops on the back of a kilt:



As I wrote in TaOK, every time you bend or sit, the belt pulls up on the loops, and this distorts the horizontal tartan line across the back of the kilt. If you wear a kilt this way long enough, the bottom edge of the kilt actually pulls up permanently and doesn't lie straight.


Is this an issue because the pleats are independent from each other or is it the fabric actually stretching? If the pleats are sewn together at the top, similar to utilikilts, does the same thing happen?