Military Box Pleats

**Michael A** · 7th July 17, 08:00 AM

Yes but I am eccentrically committed to wearing a kilt all day every day for a year for my charity so I can't pin it to jeans!

I will give it a go when I can wear pants again (up to $7500 now). This is what I did in the meantime.

But with this one being a toddler kilt I am making from scraps as practice for my mother-in-law's, with the dell being only 3.75", the vice got tedious, so I ended up just putting more pins in and stretching+pinching between each and every stitch. I think I will use it for the larger kilt though.

**Barb T** · 7th July 17, 08:12 AM

Sounds reasonable!

**OC Richard** · 9th July 17, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by Barb T

wrapped around and held in place with a belt (or perhaps with pins, although I'm not sure whether the latter is correct or not).

AFAIK some military kilts were pinned until fairly recent times. I'll have to find it, but I'm sure that I saw a WWII piper where you can see the pins.

AFAIK neither civilians nor military wore belts under their jackets/waistcoats to hold a kilt up. I believe this to be a modern idea.