I have just finished a lengthy comment in another thread and it seems to me the same point applies here. This is a Community of Kiltwearers and, as such, the level of knowledge and appreciation is far different here from the average person on the street anywhere in the world. Any debate ought to recognize that we are far more likely to encounter someone who is ignorant of the Ways of the Kilt than someone who knows as much as we do. And any discussion that misses that point is sadly deficient.

I do not live in Scotland, but I have visited more than once and I recall seeing maybe three kilt wearers- a piper, a Young Punk wearing his over jeans with a leather jacket, and surely one more who I can't remember after all of these years. That in three trips in three decades, covering many cities and towns and the spaces between.

It is said that there are nearly as many Irish people in Chicago as in all of Ireland and I daresay that there are more kilt wearers outside of Scotland than in- and, by the way, far more non-kilt wearers in Scotland than wearers. So, while my Scots brothers are correct that the box pleat is not their tradition, someone else correctly observed that the average person (most likely in Scotland too) can't tell a box pleat from a knife pleat and only sees a man in a plaid garment that stops at his knees.

I have to admit, I have worn a woman's skirt turned around to close like a man's kilt. Do you honestly believe most of the people who saw me recognized what I had done? Or that they gave me credit for taking the trouble to make it close in the manly way? Sure, one kilt owning friend noticed and called me out on it, but many more have missed the difference or politely kept quiet. And that in a room full of kilts.

There have been times and places where a man in pleated trousers was ridiculed- and others where a man with no pleats suffered the same abuse. I think it is a very good thing to discuss and debate the finer points, but as the Nannies of Old used to say "It's YOU they want to see, not your clothes."

I expect several posters here wish they could add the right wink or nudge to their opinions, to make sure no offense was implied or inferred. And I expect at least one poster who meant it when he typed it wishes he had thought a minute longer first. I thank you all for your thoughts and for your interest.

The OP wanted to know about box pleated kilts. I hope he was able to find the advice he needed in amongst the rhetoric.