As promised, here are photos of Lady Chrystel's Kingussie kilt.





The fabric is a old and rare Culloden Muted tartan from House of Edgar.








Generally the Kingussie kilt uses from 4.5 to 5.5 metres of fabric and will contain 10 to 16 large pleats.








Being a modern person, influenced by the way kilts look today, Chrystel wanted to narrow down the pleats and add deep reversed pleats at the apron edges for a better fit.





The back centred box pleat would have to blend harmoniously with the knife pleats on each side.





Chrystel wanted to be able to pleat her Kingussie kilt to the sett as well as to the stripe, as much as possible.





At things evolved, it was becoming obvious this wasn't going to be a light weight, economical, sport like, casual kilt. Rather it was developing into a full bodied “8 yarder” , closer to the typical modern kilt most people know.







More to come...