Storing kilts for a couple of years

[Catdad]

Do not use moth balls!! There are better ways to keep moths out although I can't think of anything off the top of my head. You should be able to find better alternatives someplace on the internet.

[turpin]

Ditto - Ironing a kilt that has been stored with mothballs can release a pretty toxic cloud.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Basting the stitches before storing the kilt isn't a bad idea. It definitely would help keep all the pleats in place. I'd recommend folding the kilt with the pleats out, not in, as Rathdown describes, again, to keep the pleats neat. Folding with the pleats in tends to wrinkle the pleats more.

Absolutely right, and I can't imagine why I ever wrote "pleats in". Anyhow, I've corrected my original posting--