Advice for one with poor visualization skills

[Father Bill]

Here's my 4 yd box made by John.



I'm sure you'll love yours.

I love mine! For what it's worth, the hose in the second picture are also from John.

[Dileasgubas]

I love the photos of the box pleats, above. However, I just wanted to say that I bought a Burnett's and Struth 5 yd casual kilt from a fellow XMarker a while ago and I love it. Most (non-XMarks) people can't tell the difference between it and a full tank. Since it is also lighter than a full tank, is also noticeably easier to wear for long periods such as a day at the Games. Pleating choices aside, a lower yardage kilt can therefore make very good sense.

And, enjoy your new kilt!

[Richrail]

I have 3, 5 yard wool kilts from USAkilts, I love them all. I do have the Douglas weathered 16 oz. pleated to the sett. It was the first wool kilt I purchased.
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Sorry no pleat shots.

[georgeetta]

I kind of like the dark bars ..than the ..hazy looking right side .

[MinusHD]

I kind of like the dark bars ..than the ..hazy looking right side .

I agree. It's a nice contrast.

[Jock Scot]

Well alright many of you like your box pleated kilts, but somehow I cannot escape the thought that they look like school girl skirts of the 1950's. They looked fine on the girls, but I am not really convinced that the box pleat is the best option for the men. Just offering another viewpoint, nothing more.

[Father Bill]

Interesting, Jock, because here the girls wear only knife-pleats.

[Jock Scot]

I can't really say that I have taken much notice recently. Maybe they do here more often these days, Bill. Although my grand daughter looks very smart in her tartan box pleated school skirt.

[OC Richard]

I have to say I'm sort of in Jock's camp on this one, not because of the school-girl thing (which hadn't occurred to me) but because up until I joined this site I'd never heard of or seen a "four yard boxpleated kilt".

It's not something that existed in the Traditional Highland Dress I saw around me, from the 1970s when I first started playing pipes and wearing kilts, up until I joined this forum a few years ago. Kilts were kilts: they had 8 yards, loads of pleats, were handstitched, were made of traditional kilting cloth. Utilikilts and casual kilts had not yet been born.

The "four yard boxpleated kilt" is a revived thing, rather than a traditional thing, and an American thing to boot, I do believe. Wasn't it Matt Newsome who went back into the beginning of the 19th century and revived a style of kilt which hadn't been made for nearly two centuries?

In many ways it's like people wearing Great Kilts nowadays not as part of a historical costume but part of their ordinary modern Highland Dress, something seen far more often in the USA than elsewhere.

Which is not to say that there's anything wrong with a "four yard boxpleated kilt". Not at all! I find them interesting. I think I've ever only ever seen one or two of them, at our local California Games. They do stand out from the crowd.

[sailortats]

Well OC, you have seen my 4yd box pleat Isle of Skye kilt before and here is the proof. Actually I am wearing it this morning too as I am going to a Sea Music Festival at the Maritime Park where I volunteer in just a few minutes.