Once it was acceptable for women to show their ankles most pleated skirts were cut 27 inches in length as that is half the fabric width, so it makes the most of the material you have. The waistband was made from a strip cut off one end of the fabric - you could tell as it was not quite the same size sett as the garment, one cut across the warp and the other across the weft.

There really are no kilt police....

Anne the Pleater :ootd: