Needing advice on pleating to the sett

[usonian]

I don't think that can be done - that's why you can't find instructions. You pleat it and what you get is what you get.

I suppose it could be done with a great kilt (seconding The Art of Kiltmaking for instructions on pleating to sett), but it would be a very painstaking thing to do every time you wanted to put it on. I think I've heard mention of people permanently stitching pleats at the waist on great kilts here, but given that it's a "rougher" garment (fewer pleats, not pressed to a crisp knife edge) the effect of pleating to sett might largely be lost anyway.

[Yuri909]

If you truly think it's too much I doubt it's too late to contact them to take it down to 5 or 6.

[sydnie7]

Read this entire thread. I know Panache is not your size, but believe much of the advice would apply nonetheless.