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

[Jock Scot]

Now I am fed up with this! No one from this side of the Atlantic has made any derogatory comment about box pleated kilts. NOT ONE. To us us they look like school girls skirts------- and they do. To many of you on the other side of the Atlantic they don't seem to. So what? To us there is nothing wrong with a schools girls' skirt, nothing at all! All we have ever said that the box pleated is not common over here and they do, to us, look like School girls skirts. That, it seems, is the best honest description that we over here can come up with and I really cannot see why people take exception to that.

[Semiomniscient]

Now I am fed up with this! No one from this side of the Atlantic has made any derogatory comment about box pleated kilts. NOT ONE. To us us they look like school girls skirts------- and they do. To many of you on the other side of the Atlantic they don't seem to. So what? To us there is nothing wrong with a schools girls' skirt, nothing at all! All we have ever said that the box pleated is not common over here and they do, to us, look like School girls skirts. That, it seems, is the best honest description that we over here can come up with and I really cannot see why people take exception to that.

Oh Jock, come on--you don't see why we take exception to it? I prefer not to be compared to a little school girl when I'm in my kilt. Typically in Western culture, comparing men to women is seen as an insult. Same goes with comparing them to a cross-dresser--which kilties get often enough from ignorant sorts. We're not used to hearing those types of comments from fellow kilties and people we respect. So it's a bit frustrating and off-putting.

I don't really care whether or not you like it. I guess comparing it to a school uniform skirt might seem appropriate to you, but those skirts are knife pleated here more often than not--but I wouldn't think to make the comparison with knife-pleated kilts. It's just one of those things I guess. I've got a thick enough skin for it, and I'm not hurt. And I think I've said my peace. So I'll just move on and happily take my boxpleated kilt with me as a go.