Quote Originally Posted by Muddy
Well I've got about 5 yards in the heavy heavyweight black watch
(when cut and spliced inside a pleat) and just over 7 yards in a royal
stewart medium weight (same deal)....
Found both pieces of cloth at Goodwill for about 5 bucks or so...yeah!!
Was thinking the kingussie method might swish more due to the orthodox
pleating going both ways from the box pleat.
Muddy
I think, from my short but experimental experience in kilt making, that the Kinguisse method swishes more than the knife pleated - you have a sort of concertina effect with open pleats on both sides so the centre back is free - not only to swish though - it will fly more easily too.

If you have the shorter length of heavier fabric made up in the kinguisse method then you'll probably be OK - and it is the more logical one to chose anyway.

From experiments using the shadows cast by street lamps I think that a knife pleated kilt will always tend to move further to the right than the left on a clockwise pleated kilt - the normal way for kilts to be made. That is because the pleats are opening as they move to the right, but when moving to the left they are closing up and having to lift the pleat in front so they are physically restrained.

I have made a reverse Kinguisse kilt - with all the pleats running to the back and an inverted box pleat, and a fairly deep under apon pleat each side, and find that it is great for moving through the rather wild back garden here. The backward facing pleats do not get snagged so easily as in a normal Kinguisse or a standard knife pleated kilt.

I had noticed that I was getting caught by the forward facing pleats on the right side of the kilt far more frequently than on the left side, and so the 'ghillie Kinguisse' method of pleating was the obvious solution. It is not so free swinging as the Kinguisse kilt I made, but then, nor does it fly up as easily, plus it is rather neat looking as the pleats tuck in a bit flatter than usual at the back. Anyone with any concerns about their bum looking big might do well to consider a reverse Kinguisse pleated kilt.