How To Measure Kilt
Our step-by-step guide will help ensure a perfect fit for your new tartan kilt! If you need further assistance, please get in touch.
- Always ask someone to measure you, never be tempted to measure yourself!
- Please take all measurements in inches.
- Please use a loose tailors tape measure, not a stiff DIY tape measure. These are cheap to buy either locally or online.
- Stand relaxed (do not breathe in), with your feet together and look straight ahead at all times.
- Ensure the tape measure is level all the way around for each measurement, it shouldn't be sloping or slanting.
- If you need our assistance, please get in touch for further assistance.
- Your kilt waist is a few inches higher than your normal trouser waist.
- This should be a snug measurement at the widest point of the tummy, at navel height. The measuring tape should be as tight as you want your kilt to be.
- Please do not give us your normal trouser or jeans waist, as these will actually measure 2-3 inches smaller than the label suggests.
- Remove any items from your pockets and measure around the widest point of the seat/hips.
- As illustrated, this is normally around the widest part of your buttocks.
- Put three fingers inside the tape to allow room for comfortable movement.
- Please get someone else to take this measurement for you, this is very important.
- This measurement is best taken whilst kneeling down on both knees with your body upright, back straight and looking ahead at all times.
- Measure from the same position you recorded your kilt waist down to the floor and take off 1/2 inch. Please take this measurement down the side of your body, not the front.
- Please ensure you provide an accurate height with your order. We can usually tell if your kilt length is too short or long based on your height.