"Flipping" pleat

[Barb T]

Sometimes it's how the kilt is made, and sometimes it's the body of the wearer. As Robert says, wear the second strap loose. That can help. Also, the apron edge should be pressed on a flare from the bottom of the fell, and, if the apron edge is pressed parallel to a tartan stripe, you can steam out the original crease and press in a new one on a smooth flare.

Having said all that, if you have muscular or chubby thighs, you'll likely just have to live with it. A kilt is made assuming that the biggest dimension around is at the buttocks. If you have muscular thighs (or fat on the outside of your thigh tops, if you're a woman), the kilt won't be quite big enough to go around the front and/or sides of your thighs, and the first pleat opens up a little. Nothing you can really do about it, frankly. Voice of experience here - I have chubby thighs, and the first pleat (first two, actually) on my kilt always flips open (see photo below):

[Rex_Tremende]

Voice of experience here - I have chubby thighs, and the first pleat (first two, actually) on my kilt always flips open (see photo below):

Rubenesque, perhaps, but every body is a work of art.

What, exactly, are you doing here?

Regards,
Rex.

[Bryan]

What, exactly, are you doing here?

Looks like she's tuning one of the drones.

[Ancienne Alliance]

Looks like she's tuning one of the drones.

yep !

[sydnie7]

Steve, that's an interesting post about steeking a machine-sewn kilt. I had thought about doing it, but decided that the thread in a machine-sewn horizontal line would be under too much stress, and tend to break at random points. My machine does have several types of "stretch" stitch pattern, but talk about a panty line! I'll have to do some experimenting on this. . .

[Tartan Hiker]

but talk about a panty line! I'll have to do some experimenting on this. . .

But there's nothing wrong with hand-sewing the steeking just like you'd do with a trad-made wool kilt.

[Bugbear]

But there's nothing wrong with hand-sewing the steeking just like you'd do with a trad-made wool kilt.

Yes, and I am now a believer in steeking. You can't support a non ridgid, hanging strip, like a pleat, at only one point part way down, especially when it's tapered above that point, with out distorting the angle of the pleat. In other words, you have to anchor both pleat edgesthe, inside and out, at about the same place, fell bottom and steeking line, to insure the pleat has an equal center of ballence at the anchor points.

[Canuck]

Rubenesque, perhaps, but every body is a work of art.
What, exactly, are you doing here?

Regards,
Rex.

Wishing she had a step stool......

[bricelythgoe]

I was just thinking about this today. My first two pleats like to flip up like that and I thought it was just the cheap kilts I have been getting. I just got my USAK from Rocky and it does the same thing. Guess there is not much I can do.

[Phogfan86]

Rubenesque, perhaps, but every body is a work of art.
What, exactly, are you doing here?

Regards,
Rex.

You can tune a bass drone, but you can't tuna fish.