Wedding kilt -- is pleating to the sett more appropriate?

[Barb T]

From what I read the pleat to the stripe is a reasonable casual pleat depth. .

Pleat depth really doesn't matter per se - the swing comes not from the pleat depth but from the amount of tartan in the back of the kilt and the length of the fell (the stitched part of the pleat). A smaller sett means more pleats, but you could theoretically use up as much tartan in the back of the kilt. At some point, though, the pleats get TOO small, and the kilt looks odd, and whether you can get all 8 yards into the kilt will depend on the size of the person.

But, bottom line, it has nothing to do with casual kilt vs trad full-yardage kilt.

If a sett is REALLY small (under 5"), I would just make skip a sett and put two setts into every pleat instead of one. And I've also made kilts where I can't get all the tartan into a kilt with one pleat every sett but, if I go over two setts, I won't have enough pleats. So, I might make every third pleat double depth. Or every third pleat single depth. Again - it doesn't matter that pleats are different depths - the kilt will swing better if I put the full yardage into the kilt. Here's one that doesn't exactly illustrate this but does show one with alternating pleats of different depths: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...insides-76521/

[Dale-of-Cedars]

I was sent this picture of a Crawford wedding when I was pondering 'sett vs. stripe':



Either way can look great. (The picture was 'artistically' blurred.)