Stripes present, and their complexity and proximity to other stripes can be a problem with certain setts. For example, when Bonnie was offering me options for my Allen kilt she showed me a variety of stripe pleating options, but kept running into problems becasue two different colored stripes were close enough together to show up in the pleat, but not close enough such that when the fell was tapered that portions of one or both of them disappeared with the taper higher up on the fell, giving a less than pleasing effect. We could have pleated to no stripe (or the really big blue area in the center of the sett) but then that would have given the horizontal stirped "lawnchair" look that was not pleasing to my eye, and entirely defeated the idea pleating to a vertical stripe of prominence to beging with. The dominant red and white stripes in my Allen are only about 1 inch apart, and that was enough to cause problems with the taper. Pleating to one made the other disappear part way up the fell, in a rather obvious fashion.

jeff