Originally Posted by
Alan H
They're about 1.5 inches deep. That's not very deep, but remember that this is a box pleat kilt. If you really want, when you build yours you can make them deeper, and build in some overlap. The downside to that is that up near the waistband where you taper th epleats, you'll then have a LOT of doubled-up thicknesses of material, and that gets to be a PIA to sew.
I have seen where kiltmaking intructions include cutting out part of the sewn-sown pleats. Is that a possibility here to minimize the mass at the waist?
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