Impressions of my dry cleaner...

[Spc. Scott]

My double box pleat from Lady Chrystel is hemmed and I can attest that the swing is fantastic. From what I understand, the hemming in her kilts is standard procedure.

If I'm wrong in this I hope someone will correct me.

[Pleater]

I have quite a few hemmed kilts, for various reasons non of which is that they were too long.

The selvage edge can be quite stiff in itself, if it a tucked selvage, where all the weft threads are doubled up, but I don't think that it makes any real difference.

Surely the swing is from the folds - not the edge.

Having perfected the art of walking along so the lampposts cast my shadow before me, so revealing the movement of the kilt in real time, there appears to be no discernable difference between selvaged kilts turned up to hide the selvage, either tufted or folded style, hemmed kilts and free selvaged kilts.

Narrow pleats do not swing as far as narrow ones, but there seems to be a limit as to how much a kilt swings which is not increased by deepening the pleats any further. I noticed this when reducing the waist size on my first kilts as I lost weight.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: