If I were a knife pleat...I would face...

[Brian K]

It IS difficult to legislate intelligence, now isn't it!

and, as Ron White has famously said, "you cain't fix stupid!"

[Joe Gondek]

Ok, Ok, I think I've got it.

Left facing: Homosexual
Right facing: Heterosexual
Kingussie: Bisexual
Box pleat: Asexual
Double box pleat: Very asexual
Military pleat: Don't ask Don't tell ?

I'm going to sleep a lot better having worked that out!

you have brought so much order to the kilt wearing world

[McElmurry]

If I were a knife pleat
I'd swish in the morning
I'd swish in the evening all over this land
It's the swish of tartan
It's the swish of freedom
And it's the swish about love between my brothers and my sisters
All over this land

[Schiehallion]

As a 'Gay Man' who wears the kilt... My answer to the pleat direction in the way they face reflecting ones sexuality is utter rubbish. My knife pleats all go the same way as they are traditionally made and so do all of my "Gay Gordon" Scottish Country Dance members' kilts with whom I dance.

[Zardoz]

I think a good question for David N would be which way does your apron close ?

[xman]

oh come now xman, you are just being silly

Hey I didn't start this thing. I'm just playing along.

[Tartan Tess]

As a kilt maker, TRADITIONALLY, as I was taught, pleats fold toward the right.
We in the US, hear alot about getting into cars with the stearing wheels on the right side of the vehicle. Blah Blah woof woof what is easier for sliding into the vehicle etc.
As a kilt maker who does alterations, maybe 10 % of the other makers sew the kilts from what I would consider is the wrong side of the tartan, with the twill going from top right to bottom left.
I thought at first these were left handed kilt makers , and in some cases it may be.
My teacher Elsie, when asked said that the kilt makers made the kilts using the full tartan potential.
In other words, if the tartan fabric came to them with alot of knots and loose ends on one side from the loom, they would flip it and make the kilt acording to what looked better

[kiltedlady]

snicker snort giggle laugh
Sorry, it was funny to read! But here's my question...why did he care? What if you *had* known and happened to be of that sort of persuasion? Seems like a good way to get clocked up side the head, if you ask me! Just goes to show...stupid is as stupid does! (To quote Forrest Gump again)

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Every time I think I've heard every ridiculous, made-up "fact" about the kilt, along comes another one.....

[kc8ufv]

Kingussie: Bisexual

I've used that line a time or two. Went to a gay bar one night, a guy commented like a girl was crazy for hitting on a guy there, and I did mention that my kilt is pleated both ways.

(well, I suppose my kilt is actually Reverse Kingussie pleated, so, maybe Kingussie pleats are actually asexual )