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

[Ryan Ross]

Now this is an oddness. It would seem to me that tree layers of fabric in the back and two in the front is what a box pleated kilt must contain. Add in a yard for deep pleats and such and that comes to about four yards (possibly less) in my admittedly inexperienced reckoning. How does one fit even more material into a box pleated kilt?

Extra overlap inside each box pleat. A kilt made this way will look knife pleated, from the inside.