Kilt Alterations and Repairs
Give your beloved kilt a new lease of life
Make the most of your kilt, by making the most of our in house alterations and repairs service. Carried out by our skilled kiltmakers, we can give your kilt a new lease of life through alteration or repair.
Alterations
Treated with care, a well tailored, handmade kilt is made to last a lifetime. But we can’t say the same for our waistlines. If you have a kilt in need of alteration, please book a Kilt Alteration Clinic appointment with one of our experienced in-house kiltmakers who will discuss your requirements, take your measurements and approve your kilt for assessment. There are no guarantees - but we’ll try our best to provide a solution.
We want your kilt to go the distance so we leave plenty of fabric inside for expansion. Kilts bought elsewhere may have less cloth in them. And machine-made ones are a lot harder to unpick - but we will still take a good, long & hard look at them. We will also assess kilts made by other kiltmakers, for alteration.
Please allow around 7 days for the assessment to take place - in most cases this involves opening the kilt up to take a look under the lining. If there's nothing we can do (although we will always do our best to give your kilt a new lease of life), the kilt will be handstitched back together and returned to you in its original state. If an alteration can be undertaken to improve your kilt, please allow upwards of 6 weeks for this to be completed. *If your kilt is required to be worn at any upcoming event please let the team know upon your first visit.*
You are required to visit us in store with your kilt for alteration assessment. We offer a number of services, depending on how much alteration is required.
Please allow at least 24 hrs notice when booking your appointment .
We request that all kilts are dry cleaned before assessment - thank you .
Price List
Buckle Move - £55
Moving the straps and buckles of your kilt to make the kilt fit better - you can increase or reduce the size of your kilt by up to 3 inches, depending on how the kilt has been made.
Apron Alteration - Starting at £215 (£230 for machine-made kilts)
Resizing the aprons to fit your new shape by reducing excess cloth can enhance the fit and appearance of your kilt ,depending on how it has originally been made.
Aprons and New Pleats - Starting at £230 (£245 for machine-made kilts) + cost of cloth
Resizing the aprons to fit your new shape by adding more cloth (for an additional cost) enabling more pleats and a brand new under apron to add more area to the kilt.
Kilt Shortening - Starting at £215 (£230 for machine-made kilts)
We can shorten your kilt for you by removing the original waistband, cutting the kilt to the required length, re-shaping to fit and re-attaching the waistband. This skilled process avoids adding a hem to your kilt which could result in unsightly bulk, reduced comfort and a compromised "swing".
Kilt Remake - £395 (£445 for machine-made kilts)
A full remake involves un-picking the entire kilt, recalculating mathematical kiltmaking processes to meet your measurements, re-building and re-stitching the kilt to a new size from scratch using the original fabric. Timescales & end results are dependant on the new sizes required and how the kilt as been made originally.
Please allow at least 24 hrs notice when booking your appointment .
We request that all kilts are dry cleaned before assessment - thank you .
Kilt Repairs
Accidents happen. Moths happen. Nights out also happen...
While a moth-eaten kilt will never look exactly the same, we provide a darning or patching services depending on the severity of the damage.
You'll be left with scars. Own them! All kilts tell a story and the odd patch adds to this.
In some cases, we can also replace an apron entirely if the damage is severe and matching cloth is available. Alernatively, we can swap the front and under aprons over.
Repair prices can be individually assessed and discussed when you visit us in store with your kilt.
Please allow at least 24 hrs notice when booking your appointment .
We request that all kilts are dry cleaned before assessment - thank you .
Pressing & Cleaning
We provide specialist kilt pressing and cleaning.
Price List:
Tack & Press - £65
Tack & Press involves re-measuring the hanging pleats, baste stitching them back into place ( just like our brand new kilts) before pressing to regain crisp, knife-edge pleats.
Dry Clean, Tack & Press - £95
Your kilt will be sent off to our eco-friendly specialist dry cleaners. This can take a minimum of 1 week. Once cleaned, we then tack all of your hanging pleats back into place again and press to regain sharp, knife-edge pleats.
NB - we offer this specialist cleaning service for kilts only .
Please allow at least 24 hrs notice when booking your appointment - thank you .