Questions on the Newsome 4yrd Box Pleat or 8yrd Knife Pleat?

[Cygnus]

In many ways you are so right, but the truth is that the civilian box pleated kilt is almost unknown by most Scots of today. Why that is I suppose, is just an accident of history that no one can really explain. Now in the 1940/50/60/70 and maybe even to this day at some schools(I doubt it!) the box pleated skirt was standard issue for school girls and their school uniforms. Yes in those days all school children had to wear a school uniform and the girls wore box pleated skirts. That is why to many(those that are aware) of us over here think that the box pleated kilt looks like a skirt and it really does. That is a part of "our" history that perhaps you chaps outside the UK have not understood.

I quite like the look of the box-pleated kilt but the "iconic" school-girl skirt has, mostly through film, made its way to our shores; and I will admit that I had made the mental comparison upon first seeing Matt's kilts.

Given where I live, however, it is still a style that I am considering; though I will take Jock's advice and think twice about wearing one if ever I make the journey to my ancestral homeland! And if that second thought still has me proudly wearing a Matt Newsome box-pleat kilt, I'll be prepared with historical facts for the quizzical looks and verbally expressed questions I might encounter.

[seanachie]

Given where I live, however, it is still a style that I am considering; though I will take Jock's advice and think twice about wearing one if ever I make the journey to my ancestral homeland! And if that second thought still has me proudly wearing a Matt Newsome box-pleat kilt, I'll be prepared with historical facts for the quizzical looks and verbally expressed questions I might encounter.

Quizzical looks and verbally expressed questions, are definitely something I can handle. I actually am waiting for my first wool kilt, 16 oz Jura in Saffron, box pleated from John Hart (Keltoi). I have had enough strange reactions in wearing the kilt that I don't let it bother me. I have read the history of the box pleated kilt presented so well here, I know what a fine kilt maker John is from all his reviews, and the 4 yard box pleat put a wool kilt within my budget. I appreciate what you are saying about pulling this off in Scotland, but in my normal course of kilting if some has an issue with my kilt, the problem is theirs not mine. I have never been a lemming and don't propose to start, and part of why I like the kilted rabble.