Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
Box pleat kilts in 1860? I'm confused again.
Nothing confusing about it. Box pleats were the original style for tailored kilts (beginning in the 1790s) and remained the common style for much of the nineteenth century. The first military regiment to make the switch to knife pleats were the Gordon Highlanders in 1854. It took a while after that for the knife pleated fashion to really catch on.