Sweeping your pleats for that long car ride!!

**TheOfficialBren** · 3rd April 13, 09:42 PM

Cck, definately!!

Rondo, that's a great reason to go with Kingussie pleats!

**rondo** · 3rd April 13, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by TheOfficialBren

Rondo, that's a great reason to go with Kingussie pleats!

An unexpected benefit to be sure.
Rondo

**TheOfficialBren** · 3rd April 13, 11:15 PM

Who built your Kingussie, Rondo?

**rondo** · 3rd April 13, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by TheOfficialBren

Who built your Kingussie, Rondo?

Matt Newsome

**Ancienne Alliance** · 4th April 13, 02:44 AM

Hamish had a great tutorial ....

Best,

Robert

**Ancienne Alliance** · 4th April 13, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by rondo

Matt Newsome

and others... ;)

Best,

Robert

**Thomas H** · 4th April 13, 05:04 AM

I wear shorts and hang my kilt up in the back until I get there and I put my kilt on next to the car lol
I know but I dont take of the shorts till the kilt is on and good .
this has worked for me on the long rides to the games .

**Spartan Tartan** · 4th April 13, 06:05 AM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

I get a warning from MacAfee when I click on that; but it's also on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEkgK7gQ6mM

For driving, though, I have a leather belt I never wear (because my parrot chewed on part of it) that now stays in my vehicle. Instead of sweeping the pleats with my hands I place the belt across my backside just below the fell to hold everything together properly, plop my bum on the seat and scootch into position, then raise up slightly and push the belt forward with gentle upward pressure until it clears the pleats, and then settle my weight back down. Never fails.

I learned this trick from Dale a couple years ago... I have used it ever since. Works like a charm.

**Jock Scot** · 4th April 13, 06:14 AM

I just wonder why you chaps "over there" who insist on driving cars, etc. with the stearing wheels on the wrong side and drive on the wrong side of the road, just don't get your kilts made with the pleats going the wrong way too?

In all seriousness why not?

**Grizzled Ian** · 4th April 13, 06:22 AM

I've been wondering that for a while now Jock. But Barb T says in her wonderful book on kiltmaking that knife pleats run around to the right. I wonder, though, if the fundamental reason is that "that is the way it's always been done", or if there is a logic that stems from the making process. I wonder how long it would have taken unknowing observers to work out that there was a difference, and what the difference is.