Calculation of pleats in Kilt

[The Wizard of BC]

As someone raised with imperial but now living in a country using metric I feel your pain.

You can easily make a kilt using only metric. What measuring system you use does not really matter.
As long as you can understand the principals behind why you are doing something.

If you can visualize how to fold the fabric to achieve the pattern you need, you don't need to worry that 3/4 inch and 19.05 cm are the same thing.

[AJBryant]

What Steve said. It's all the same in the end.

[Carlo]

If you can visualize how to fold the fabric to achieve the pattern you need, you don't need to worry that 3/4 inch and 19.05 cm are the same thing.

And there we see the problems that come from conversions. 3/4 inch are 1.905 cm. The story of how a comma made an elefant out of a mouse