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

[CMcG]

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.

In Toronto, Canada the standard pleating style for a schoolgirl's uniform is the knife pleat. My lass was quite excited when I bought her a box-pleated kilt-skirt because it didn't remind her of her old uniform!

That being said, many schools over the last few years have been phasing out the kilt-skirt. A terrible shame in my opinion.

Back to the topic of the OP. I don't own a box-pleated kilt but I would like to.

[David White]

I own three box-pleats, two made by Matt (and they are both of fantastic quality). They look sharp and have history! Also they are very comfortable, even in the very hot and very humid Virginia summers-also warm in the winter. I highly recommend them. And I'm wearing one now.

The only comment I have recieved about the box-pleat looking like a girls skirt was here on this forum, very early on. I honestly believe I had one of the first here.

Here is a link to a closed thread showing a bunch of box-pleats-
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...d-kilts-25030/