Deepening final pleats?

[Kid Cossack]

Gents:

This isn't being posted in the DIY section because, umm, I don't plan on doing it myself! If, however, it should be in the DIY anyway, I'm confident that our moderators will make the call, and the move.

I've got a couple of kilts that are mostly nice, but flawed in having a very shallow first and final pleat. (Or perhaps, having very shallow first and final pleats.)

One of them is a poly-cotton twill box pleat kilt from Orsman. They're no longer in business, so far as I can tell. The other is my WPG 22 ounce Gordon regimental weight kilt. Both kilts are fine when I am standing up. Both kilts really, really, really want to ride up when I sit down.

I am (as you may have noticed) no sort of technical writer. I am also evolving in my appreciation of kilts. That is, I have always appreciated them, but I'm beginning to get to the point where I can tell what a problem is. I know what I like in a kilt, and I think that one of the things I like is a quite deep first and final pleat. When you sit down in a kilt, you're supposed to spread your legs, right? Spread your legs, the apron drapes down and the sporran helps the apron to drape down.

Well, if I try and do that in the WPG or Orsman, umm, I'd be arrested for indecent exposure. This doesn't happen with my SWKs, my USAKs or my Matt Newsome special---each of which have "more pleating" up at the aprons.

Here's the question: could a deeper pleat be added without a complete retailoring of the kilts? With the Orsman, since it's poly-cotton twill and sewn down everywhere, I don't think it would be too much trouble, but I'm not so sure about the WPG. I was thinking of using a length of the poly-wool from my much-traveled USGI blanket for adding the pleat. I don't fool myself that it would result in a hand-made custom tailored tank . . . but I keep thinking that maybe it would work anyway, and salvage a couple of kilts that are, at present, not of too much use to me.

Y'all do feel free to laugh, comment, giggle, snicker and provide assistance, as the mood strikes you.

[Barb T]

I'm having trouble seeing how you would deepen that first pleat without taking the kilt apart and the top band to add the material. And do you have material that matches?

B

[Chef]

I'm having trouble seeing how you would deepen that first pleat without taking the kilt apart and the top band to add the material. And do you have material that matches?

B

I would need to agree with this. I can't see how it is going to work.