There are a couple of ladies in my dojo who have just gotten into hakama and are using Iaito (my spares). They’ve been shown how to tie their hakama ‘correctly’ but when they put their swords through their obi and hakama himo, the swords sit at a 45 degree or even more vertically rather than just above horizontal. We can’t figure out why and they say it’s because they ‘have hips’, despite both being svelte. I pointed out that I’ve seen female Japanese Iaidoka with nearly horizontal swords and they both chimed back at me, “But WE have hips”🤔🙄

Can anyone suggest how this might be remedied...and don’t say liposuction.