Hi, a good friend passed on this very small image, from the web, of the pleats on a kilt that looks like it might be Mackenzie. He passed it on because we've discussed my Mackenzie kilts (I hope to get him in a kilt one day but he's proving a bit recalcitrant! But that's a different story.).

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Sorry the image is a tad small. The pleating is odd, to the red line and part of the block, not a style I've seen before. I have the opposite on one kilt, pleated to the white line and part of the block with the red lines hidden.

The question for the kiltmakers among us is: Given the distance between the red lines, as you see from the horizontal lines, wouldn't this make the pleats excessively deep to reduce the distance between the red lines (about 15" on my kilt) to what appears to be a separation of about 4" on the pleats? We are intrigued - how would this be achieved?

Note to Mods: This is not my photograph, I do not know its origin or who owns the copyright, which the forum is always very careful to attribute. If posting is inappropriate, please delete the post, with my apologies.