Military Pleats?

[way2fractious]

I'm not a historian and do not know which regiments wore kilts of what pleating style. What I do know is a wee bit about how to make various styles of kilt pleats.

What you described is "pleat to sett." Most, if not all, regiments used "pleat to stripe" likely because it is a concept easy to understand by soldiers who had to make their own kilts from issued tartan. (But sewing perfect tapers between all those stripes in the fell is easier said than done!)

Here is a thread by JohnH, one of our kiltmaking members, in which he photo-documents the making of "military box pleats."

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/m...x.html?t=27980

Check Kathy Lare's site (in Daaaaang's post) because she can also create the military box pleat.

Daaaaang also has it right when he said,

... military box pleats (which are, as far as I know, always pleated to the stripe),...

I once played around with some scrap material and pleated it to the sett using the military box pleat style. My conclusion was that trying to recreate the sett with the small, loosely associated pleat "reveals" didn't work nearly as well as with knife pleats. In other words, it could be done, but why?

[Riverkilt]

Daaaaang is dead on. Kathy Lare went back to the Keith Kilt School in Scotland to learn specifically how to do the "official" military box pleats.

Can't hurt to call her or email her and discuss what you want. www.kathyskilts.com

She's hand sewn over 1,000 kilts and being a military family many of them have been of various military tartans and types of pleating...think her website has more info.

I wanted my RAF tartan kilt done with military box pleats, but she actually advised against it for a number of reasons instead of just taking the money and doing it. She'll tell you straight.

I own eight of her hand sewn kilts. Because of her quality workmanship.

She's in Albuquerque, N.M. No clue where you are...may work for or against connecting with her.

Ron

[AlamoQOCH]

Wow! What a gold mine of information I struck here. Thanks to everybody!

I think the WPG Kilt will do just fine, especially considering I would normally wear the khaki kilt apron over it anyway.

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[Jock Scot]

I have two kilts made by Chisholms of Inverness.I cannot speak too highly of their product,attention to detail and their friendly efficiant service.Out of interest a kilt belonging to the Cameron Highlanders,complete with battle damage from the action you describe near Dunkirk,is on show at the Cameron museum near Fort William Scotland.You may also be interested to know that I still use,occasionally,a .303 SMLE made by BSA.

[Chase]

Welcome from Houston, Texas...Very interesting history lesson in your introduction.

Chase

[SergeantFirstClass]

To the pipers out there, the famous, Pipe Major Donald MacLeod (MBE) was captured in the above mentioned action and escaped. To the non-pipers, much of the more famous pipe tunes played today were written by P/M Donald MacLeod. Just a tidbit more to add. He passed away in 1984. Sorry for hijacking the thread.

[Jack Daw]

I notice that What Price Glory has the Cameron Highlanders kilt pleated to the yellow stripe with box pleats. I'm going to assume that this is how they historically pleated their kilts, in case you want to ask another kiltmaker to make the kilt for you.

Yes, the Camerons wore a box-pleat in their Cameron of Erracht kilts. Kathy Lare the Kiltmaker does box-pleats. The weight should be the 22 oz, too.

[SFCRick]

That is a fine looking Tartan

[Jack Daw]

I have a Cameron of Erracht kilt, but it's got knife pleats, to the sett. If I get a box-pleat it will probably be in the MacKenzie tartan, which the Seaforth Highlanders wore.

[g koch]

WHAT PRICE GLORY is gonna be your all round best bet. $315 USD AND box pleats!

http://onlinemilitaria.net/shopdispl...=150&cat=KILTS