Quote Originally Posted by ChattanCat View Post
This may work for slacks and skirts, but it will not work for a traditional knife pleated kilt. You must first start with understanding what is the root cause of the problem. Is the waist band equal to or bigger than the waist. Is the buckle in the proper position for the size of the waist. Was the kilt made by traditional method or is it a economy (shudder) kilt. Is the waist the same as the hips? Is the kilt tailored to the person or is it an off the shelf kilt?
I agree completely. This works with pants, etc., but not with a kilt. And snugging a kilt into the small of the back won't help per se. Remember that a trad kilt is exactly the same overall length in the front and the back (both the top and the bottom are parallel to a tartan stripe). If you have a significant kiester, and you snug the kilt into the small of the back, it actually causes the kilt to be a little too _short_ in the back (the back has to curve out and over the butt instead of hanging straight down). If you have a flat kiester, it should actually hang to exactly the same level in the back as in the front.

The main culprit in a sagging kilt is the fact that the kilt can't be buckled tightly at the waist. This can be caused by buckles that aren't in the right place, and, if you can't buckle your kilt tight, it will sag in the back. And as some have pointed out, if a kilt tapers all the way to the top and doesn't flare in the rise, it's impossible to buckle it snug at the wasit, and it will sag.

Snugging the kilt into the small of the back helps you buckle the kilt tight, so that's why a well-shaped kilt doesn't sag (providing it flares at the top).

Anyway, you can try two things. First, move the underapron strap and the apron edge buckles, if you can't get the kilt buckles tightly. Second, if you're up to it, take the top band off the kilt and try just stretching the kilt in the pleats to gain a little more length at the top. Sometimes this works, and sometimes it doesn't.