Hmmm - maybe I should have patented the idea.....

I have to say that the method of pleating - the 'ghillie kinguisse' seems to be the one which is most apt for me - the rear facing pleats both sides mean I can get around my garden and other vegetated ground without having the kilt snatched off by every branch, when sitting I can spread the rear box pleat and let the other pleats hang free.

I do not sew down the fell these days - I found, when wearing an early version of the 'GK' (Hey New abreviation here!!!) kilt only half done that there was no real need. I am now making a kilt with 50 small pleats - due to the way the stripes fall, no way would I ever sew down 50 supressed pleats. The under pleats are alternately red and white with black and grey, the reveals are black and grey.

I make the vertical edges of the apron fall at the middle of the knee, then when I sit down the under apron pleats open and the aprons fall vertically.