Cargo shorts to Utility kilt?

[Different_Trains]

Could you make a pocketed kilt/skirt by unpicking the inside of the legs and sewing them together?
Is it as easy as it sounds? And would there be enough material round the legs or would it be too tight?

[Since1982]

I've made at least a half dozen cargo SKIRTS from cargo SHORTS. Much cheaper than buying a cargo skirt in the first place. There's plenty of room when you're done. Most cargo shorts come with pretty wide legs and once converted it becomes a cross between a straight and an A-line skirt to the knee. I use the cotton twill khaki colored shorts for that.

All my converted from brand new shorts, cargo skirts cost me between $12.00 and $15.00 each in the Tall and Big Man catalog. That's pretty good if you ask me.

[owen]

I've done it before, and it's quite simple. You can make the skirt wider by inserting triangles of fabric (from the cut-off legs if you're converting from long trousers) between the leg-seams.

You can find plenty of articles on the web showing you how to do it (search for "convert jeans skirt" or similar).

[AMM]

You can convert trousers (shorts or otherwise) into -- an unbifurcated garment.

I've tried it a few times, but I've never been happy with the results. It's just too obvious that you're taking something that was never meant as a skirt and patching it into a crude (very crude) imitation of a skirt. Aside from the seams in odd locations, you can't get it to have a decent shape. I find it's less work to just buy the cloth and make a skirt from scratch, and the results are better.

You can't convert trousers into any kind of approximation of a Utilikilt at all -- there's nowhere near enough fabric.

[knickerless]

A lady friend of mine offered to convert a pair of combat trousers into a skirt for me. She managed to do it very easily and the hem is just below the lower pockets.

I will try and post a picture at some time.

Nick

[jeanfor]

Here is a great camo skirt I bought on Ebay for $20. It is 3 in above the knee ( I am a short guy). I bought the same model in a brown camo color too. No need to spend a lot....