Questions on the Newsome 4yrd Box Pleat or 8yrd Knife Pleat?

toadinakilt · 27th July 10, 10:43 AM

My only comment here, seeing as how I don't own any 'good' kilts at all and can't really say anything about the way a box-pleat feels, is that a sporran is absolutely essential with a box-pleat, at least to my eye.

But I consider a sporran absolutely essential anyway...

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 27th July 10, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by toadinakilt

My only comment here, seeing as how I don't own any 'good' kilts at all and can't really say anything about the way a box-pleat feels, is that a sporran is absolutely essential with a box-pleat, at least to my eye.

I would assume that you'd want to wear a sporran with your kilt no matter which pleating style you prefer....

**Jock Scot** · 28th July 10, 08:00 AM

Now hold on! I am not aware that I have said in this thread that you will be ridiculed if you came to Scotland with your box pleated kilt, now have I? Most Highland Scots are far too polite to do that , what you might get is the occasional quizzical look-----that style of kilt is beyond our ken, after all------ and if they know you really, really well they may even ask to have a look at it! Whether an opinion will be voiced, well, I doubt that one will be given unless one is asked for and who knows what that might be? Wear your box pleats and be welcome , but at least you will know the situation.

**ccga3359** · 28th July 10, 08:24 AM

I'd be ridiculed to no end, right Jock?

**Jock Scot** · 28th July 10, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by Kilted Abuser of Rubber Chickens

I'd be ridiculed to no end, right Jock?

Oh yes of course! It would be nothing to do with the style of kilt you were wearing though!

Then, if I had anything to do with it-------well---------I would------buy you a drink!

**Ryan Ross** · 28th July 10, 09:06 AM

For what it's worth, the school I attended for the last five years of my secondary education (8th grade plus high school) had uniforms. The girls were all in box pleated skirts in the Black Watch tartan(or some close variation, done up in a small sett). All day. Every day. Nearly every girl I saw for five years of my life was in a box pleated tartan skirt.

That being the case, I've personally never felt that a box pleated kilt reminded me of the schoolgirl skirts to which I was so accustomed to seeing.

...I suspect that Scottish aversion to box pleats may be, rather, a vast Victorian conspiracy!

**xman** · 28th July 10, 02:21 PM

I keep checking in to hear about perceived merits of box pleats vs. knife pleats and the skirt argument continues?!

*nudge*

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 29th July 10, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by Ryan Ross

...I suspect that Scottish aversion to box pleats may be, rather, a vast Victorian conspiracy!

Or not. All of the kilts in Kenneth MacLeay's Highlanders of Scotland series of watercolors commissioned by Queen Victoria herself were box pleated (though made with closer to 5 or 5.5 yards).

**Ryan Ross** · 29th July 10, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by Ryan Ross

...I suspect that Scottish aversion to box pleats may be, rather, a vast Victorian conspiracy!

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

Or not. All of the kilts in Kenneth MacLeay's Highlanders of Scotland series of watercolors commissioned by Queen Victoria herself were box pleated (though made with closer to 5 or 5.5 yards).

You and your historiosity are a wet blanket for millions who also believe in Bigfoot, Roswell, and the Grassy Knoll Theory. Thanks for ruining my day.

EDIT: I'd like to note that in the beginning of Victoria's reign, low yardage box pleated kilts were the standard, and most kilts were constructed so. By the end of her reign, the high yardage knife pleated kilt was nearly universal. The truth is out there...

**BoldHighlander** · 30th July 10, 01:16 AM

Originally Posted by Ryan Ross

You and your historiosity are a wet blanket for millions who also believe in Bigfoot, Roswell, and the Grassy Knoll Theory. Thanks for ruining my day.

I still believe!!!

:mrgreen: