Tartan Jackets

[Sherry]

Cuillin is offering tartan jacket reproductions to go with the historically pleated kilts:
KILTS: We can now offer accurate reproduction kilts from the 18th and 19th century, regimental or civilian, in accurately reproduced tartans. Box, barrel, knife, or 'Kingussie'-pleated, these kilts are made from a minimum of four yards of cloth up to nine yards depending on period and waist size.

Here are photos of an original Highland Dress suite from 1800 at the Kingussie Folk Museum in Scotland. Note how the LARGE pleats are angled left and right from a center box pleat:

photos from the Bob Martin archive

Below is an example of a modern 'Kingussie'-pleated kilt:

photos courtesy Bob Martin

The 'Kingussie' Kilt can be made with (modern) or without (historical) a box-pleat on the left of the front kilt apron. This is an extremely distinctive kilt style, and one of the oldest in existance.

Other Historic Kilt styles will be illustrated as examples are available, including the correct barrel pleat (42nd RHR from about 1775-1840), the box pleat (civilian and regimental up to about 1840), and early knife pleat kilts.



http://www.cuillinn.com/repro.html

Talk about fancy dress!

Sherry

[haukehaien]

What's a barrel pleat?

[Southern Breeze]

What's a barrel pleat?

I'm scrathing my head too.Enquiring minds want to know.

[Rigged]

This is the only image I could find of a barrel pleat:

http://www.dfbsales.com/html/details...l_details.html

[Hamish]

I have heard of barrel pleats before, but never seen them. However, I have always imagined them to be simple, unpressed box-pleats, rather like Rigged's illustration of curtain headings. No doubt Matt will know the answer to this one.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Hamish has it just about right. It's like you took a regular knife pleated kilt and twisted the top of it around, making almost a little "box" at the end. You leave this unpressed and it makes almost a tube running down your pleat. Soldiers would actully run a cane up them to round them out for inspection, so it's also sometimes called cane pleating.

BTW, the kilt in the bottom picture there is in the Bullman tartan, designed by Bob Martin for my friend Al Bullman. He's got the only kilt in it that I know (made by Bob Martin), and he was quite surprised to see his kilt on this guy's web site!

Matt