Nice example of pleating to the sett

[Barb T]

I thought MacPherson pleated to the stripe worked rather well, so here's mine.]

As always it depends on the size of the sett, the size of the person, the waist-hip differential, and the amount of tartan you have. As it happens, the customer already had a MacPherson kilt (modern, I believe), pleated to the stripe, and it looks great. For the kilt I was making, the combination of the sett size and his measurements (and the fact that he needed a fair amount of pleat taper) put the white stripes very close to the edges of the pleats. I could have solved the problem by not using all 8 yards and making each pleat bigger, but he chose pleating to the sett so that I could use the full kilt length.