Ladies, your opinion please!

[Fitzy]

What Matt said about the total material weight I've recently had opportunaty to witness myself!

A week ago, my girlfriend just got a 16 oz box pleated kilt skirt, made by Matt.

She also has an 11 oz knife pleated kilt skirt made by USAKilts last winter.

Having seen her 'move' in both, the 16 oz box pleat swishes about the same as the 11 oz knife pleat. Both skirts weigh about the same even though the knife pleat has a bit more yardage in the pleats. The match-up in swish has more to do with the material weight than the pleat style.

I can add a bit more to that.
I have a 5 yard 16 oz from USAKilts, and a new, 4 yard 16 oz box pleat from Keltoi. I haven't asked, and no one has ventured to mention it, but both kilts 'feel' like they move about the same.

Paul

[AN COIGREACH ALBANNACH]

Goodgirlgoneplaid has it dead to rights! You have to know how to walk the pleats,it is a sort of swagger I guess.Once you know how and you get that rythmic swing up, its a feeling all on its own.

I'm not saying it's any of you lads on the forum,but every now and then you see a fellow walking in the kilt with no idea of what I'm on about and,well,it's just a shame that's all.I knew an old ex army fellow once and he used to say that when on a kilted route march,with a piper at the head and the swing of the 18 ounce kilts working in rythm with their steps,he used to feel he could happily march on and on.

I have an 18 ouncer myself and once you know how to swing it as you walk its not hard at all.I can't speak from experience but i would imagine that it would in fact be harder to get a swing going in a constant manner in one of these more modern style light kilts.