Quote Originally Posted by mookien View Post
Alan: What a great picture of different pleating styles (and kilt lengths for that matter)! Thanks. I'll keep that one for illustrative purposes.

I like the "dreaded lawn-chair effect". I would like it even if it went completely around the kilt, though it wouldn't be very traditional, I suppose. I also like it for the striking, visual "swishing" effect that Tobus wrote about. And for me, the knife-edges of the pleats themselves provide enough vertical contrast to maintain the plaided look.

I must confess, though, that the horizontal-dominant effect in your kilt does create the optical illusion that your butt is bigger than everyone else in the line. ;-)
My butt IS bigger than everybody elses in the line! I weighed about 275 in that picture, I'm about 285 now. There isn't anybody else in that shot who weighs more that 175...a hundred pounds less!