pleated to the "dreaded lawn chair effect"

[Barb T]

To me, Todd's kilts don't have "lawn chair". And yes, it's a matter of degree. Any kilt pleated to the solid color block will have only a horizontal pattern. But there's a difference between a pleasing effect and one that looks like plastic lawn chair strips. It's in part of matter of color contrast, but Todd's kilts do have some strong color contrasts and they don't look "lawn chair-y". I think the reason is that the brighter of the two stripes in his kilts does not have lots of contrasty stripes within it.