Ghillie Kinguisse

**Pleater** · 2nd June 07, 05:52 AM

OK - we have the technology - do we have the expertise to employ it - we shall see.

It has to be simply a press the right button scenario - so - lets press some buttons.

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/kiltmaking/photos/view/df36?b=4[/IMG]

OK - there is a link - so?

Hmm - maybe set this up and see what happens. No - it isn't working.

**McMurdo** · 2nd June 07, 05:54 AM

Originally Posted by Pleater

OK - we have the technology - do we have the expertise to employ it - we shall see.

It has to be simply a press the right button scenario - so - lets press some buttons.

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/kiltmaking/photos/view/df36?b=4[/IMG]

OK - there is a link - so?

Hmm - maybe set this up and see what happens.

try this I think it will work

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/kil.../view/df36?b=4

Nope that just goes to the yahoo group main page. I would think about posting your photos to a site like photobucket:

www.photobucket.com

it works for me

**Pleater** · 2nd June 07, 06:13 AM

I can't set the yahoo group for public access - so trying again

**pdcorlis** · 2nd June 07, 06:15 AM

Nope - but please keep trying...

**Pleater** · 2nd June 07, 06:24 AM

Oh well - If you go to www.kiltphotos.com

under modern kilts, natural fibres there are some photos of the DPM reverse Kinguisse.

**Kid Cossack** · 2nd June 07, 06:29 AM

Took some editing, but I found it, and I like it!

http://www.kiltphotos.com/displayima...lbum=101&pos=1

**McMurdo** · 2nd June 07, 06:30 AM

Nice looking kilt, thanks for going to all the trouble of getting the link right.

**Pleater** · 2nd June 07, 07:02 AM

Yes - thank you for getting the 'blue clicky' link - for those who once programmed in Octal it can all get rather too modern.

The kilt looks even better when worn with a '58 webbing belt and the brasses all polished up - I will have to try to find some way to photograph myself - a full length mirror perhaps.

**Arlen** · 2nd June 07, 07:06 AM

Very nice. I'd wear it.
Here you go...

'Ghillie' Kinguisse by Pleater
All cotton lightweight DPM in a reversed Kinguisse style.

**Pleater** · 2nd June 07, 07:31 AM

The kilt is made from 4 of 60 inch strips cut across the fabric, as the pattern looked odd running in the normal direction for a kilt.

That made the strip of material 20 ft wide and 24 and 1/4 inches long. Each piece was hemmed to 23 inches before being joined into the strip.

There is a visible seam in the centre back, though it is inside the inverted pleat, which takes 8 inches of fabric each side. The two other seams are the inner folds of the 4th small pleat counting inwards, not including the under apron pleat.

There are 11 pleats each side with 7 inches of fabric in each, and the under apron pleat which has about 15 inches. The 7 inch pleats have about 3 inches within the fold and all have just under an inch showing. They were pinned down and adjusted to be even using a piece of card as spacer, so they just filled the waistband between the edges of the apron.

There is a 2 inch shaping of the apron - so there is 4 inches folded in at the top of the apron, tapering to nothing at the hem.

The edges of the aprons are straight.

The two sides of the kilt are exact mirror images except for the belt loop on the outer edge of the upper apron.