Boxed knife pleats!?

[Prester John]

I wonder what Matt N will say about it.

Barb T too!

[Angus]

Now all we need is the pleat name.

I thought that Military Box Pleat was the name of it? But then again
Maybee Matt or Todd will see this and give us a few words of wisdom, hint hint.

[macwilkin]

I thought that Military Box Pleat was the name of it? But then again
Maybee Matt or Todd will see this and give us a few words of wisdom, hint hint.

Cameron of Erracht, the regimental tartan of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. In 1961, they were amalgamted with the Seaforths to form the Queen's Own Highlanders, and then amalgamated again with the Gordons in 1994 to form The Highlanders.

Cheers,

Todd

[Moosehead]

Technically a roll pleat, but the Regiments who use it simply call it box pleat. Seen them before (Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa) but never took a good look. C'mon, I'm not into staring at soldier's butts.

[Pleater]

Now that might be a possibility for the piece of all wool suiting I want to use - it is quite large, and I wanted to make a kilt using all of it.

Now all I need is the nerve to try wearing something with seven layers of fabric in the pleats.

Just keep on with the diet I supose.

The original seems to have about 20 pleats - I wonder what the measurements of one pleat are at the waist, the bottom of the fell, and when fully opened out at the hem.

What weight would the whole kilt be? In a heavy fabric it must be quite considerable.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

This is military box pleating. It's basically what happens when you try and make a box pleated kilt using very narrow pleats. In a "true" box pleat, the pleat depth is about 1/2 of the pleat width so that there is little or no overlap on the inside of the pleat (in other words, if your box pleat is 3" wide, then each pleat is 1.5" deep). This style only uses about 4 yards of cloth.

But when you make a box pleated kilt from 8 yards of cloth, there will be more pleats and they will, by neccesity, be more narrow. This means more cloth inside the pleat. So on one side of the box, the depth will be the same as the pleat width, and on the other side of the box, the remainder of the pleat depth will look more like a knife pleated kilt (just like the picture).

M

[RockyR]

The pleats pictured are VERY SIMILAR to Rolled Pleats. As far as I know, they are called "Stacked Pleats". That's the kind of pleats that Kelly and I did for the "Madonna Kilts" for her re-invention tour. They swing well on BOTH directions which is what she needed on stage in a dancing routine.

The difference between "Stacked and Rolled" is how many times you roll over the fabric.

Here's a link that describes the different types of pleats :

http://costume.dm.net/pleats/

This link has a GREAT explanation of a way to make a box pleats with DEEP PLEATS for improved swing! Matt... may be worth a shot trying to make an 8 yard box pleated kitl!