Poll: Kilts made to the stripe or sett

[Riverkilt]

This may all be in my mind...but something to consider.

I have four "military" tartan kilts. Only one is pleated to the stripe.

Rocky pleated my Army semi-trad to the sett, my Navy semi-trad to the stripe.

Kathy Lare pleated my Leatherneck and Royal Air Force hand sewns to the sett. Though I did talk to her about military box pleats...

What I have found in the wearing of the kilts is that the military tartans pleated to the sett can also be used as sort of "nice looking tartan" kilts. In my mind....they seem more versatile...like I wore the Leatherneck to a wedding as a nice looking tartan kilt that coordinated well with my jacket.

In my mind...pleated to the stripe makes the kilt more of a "uniform" type kilt...like I should be marching in a parade with a platoon of other guys in the same kilt.

Pleated to the sett, the kilt "honors" the service and my kin who served and seems -in my mind - to be more of a social kilt than an on parade kilt.

But that's all in my mind...may not be in yours.

Ron