To the Stripe or the Sett, that is the Question?

**Celticlergy** · 4th March 09, 07:51 AM

Thanks for the info mates. I am using a great kilt now, and pleating about 4-5 yards myself (laying down, belting etc.). So, you can imagine the relief I feel in hearing that. "Pleat it to whatever." So I shall! Thanks Woodsheal (who by the way... you have a great looking Jacobite outfit).

**thescot** · 4th March 09, 08:28 AM

I have a Gordon like McMurdo's, and it looks right with the stripe. That's the way God and the regiment meant for it to look.

But I really like things pleated to the sett for the most part. The way the sett carries through the back, pleated side just looks really good to me.

**thescot** · 4th March 09, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Thanks for explaining that. I've done that with a regular blanket many times in the winter when I had to get up in the early morning. I use a strip of cloth as a tie-on belt kind of like a robe.

I'm just not going to listen to the other stuff about laying on the ground while pleating the plaid stuff any more.

I'm like Ted here. And I'm going to try that method Steve described one day soon with my own breachan feile.

However, for dressier occassions, I think I'll still do the laying down thing. (I do it on the bed, so it's not so much trouble getting up. (A man my age has to think of his back, you know.)

When I do carefully pleat the thing, it comes out looking pretty good.

But I'm gonna have to rethink this whole quick donning thing.

**bricelythgoe** · 4th March 09, 08:34 AM

I just bought a USAK American Heritage pleated to the sett.

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/u...225/index.html

I absolutely love it! I acctually prefer a kilt pleated to the stripe, in most cases.

**isantop** · 5th March 09, 10:01 AM

I'm currently pleating my first Tartan kilt to the horizontal stripe. The tartan is Black Stewart, and, after looking past the little imperfections with my bad pleating, it looks really great.

**Ryan Ross** · 5th March 09, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by chasem

It really depends on the tartan for me. sounds like a cop out, but really...

There's a picture in TAoK of a hunting ross pleated to the stripe, which reveals lighter green when the pleats move... I'd love to have a kilt in that tartan/pleating because it looks great.

Yep- I must agree that it looks fantastic, though mine reveals the darker green, when it moves.

...I'm a pleat to stripe man, all the way.