badly pressed pleats ruins effect

[biblemonkey]

AGH! Poor thing...

[MacSpadger]

I had a Seaforth kilt just like this years ago when I joined my first pipe band, (which was formed by ex-Seaforths). These kilts do indeed have box pleats.
I found that the box pleating didn't require any additional care compared to knife pleating. I did hand wash it once, and the 22oz blanket quality material was a challenge to press.

I most certainly agree that this is the worst case of badly pressed pleats I have seen. What a shame.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Seaforth kilts are indeed box pleated, but whomever pressed the kilt this way apparently did not know that. I wonder if they thought they were "fixing" the pleats?!

[Spartan Tartan]

What a shame. It's exactly this type of outcome that makes me question having someone else clean/press my kilt (that doesn't do kilts regularly, anyway).

[xman]

... I wonder if they thought they were "fixing" the pleats?!

The change from the sewn fell to the hang is so stark that I can't imagine the presser was ignorant of it. I'll bet they simply got tired of having to try and maintain them and decided to 'fix' them none-the-less.