Hey John, no worries, I found a whole bolt of a light blue mixed fibre material -from testing it with bleach it is about half wool.

So I can just keep cutting into the material as I make the pleats - is 31 pleats the standard military pattern? Its just that on the first photo of this thread - I think of an ex military kilt, pleated to the stripe, there are 34 stripes.

So - there could be 2 which are actually the edges of the aprons - maybe I wasn't paying attention (trying not to get too interested) but that leaves 32 stripes, or reveals.

I looked back at previous messages and there is one pleat not folded back - it said the deep pleat at the right of the apron - that is the under apron - right?

So going back to the original pleated to stripe MB kilt - is has 32 reveals, one of which is the larger pleat at the right hip, and 31 other pleats?