The most messed up military box pleats I've seen were on a vintage military kilt somebody was selling on Ebay a few years ago.
You can tell that somebody tried to iron the pleats but didn't understand how box pleats work.
So they ironed them flat like knife pleats! But at the fell it was an utter mess.
BTW when I took the Elsie Steuehmeyer kiltmaking class somebody asked her about box pleats. Recall that she was a kiltmaker for Thomas Gordon, Glasgow, who made hundreds of military kilts. Since 3 of the 5 old kilted regiments wore boxpleated kilts she had made tons of them.
Anyhow I was amazed when she said that partway through the kiltmaking process knifepleated and boxpleated kilts were the same. She picked up a kilt that a student was stitching the pleats, and with her fingers she turned the pleats into box pleats.
Last edited by OC Richard; 19th June 20 at 05:28 AM.
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