Originally Posted by
LKM
Personally I have never seen a tartan that I do not like pleated to the stripe, yet there are some that look better when pleated to a stripe that is not the dominate stripe.
Yes so much depends on which stripe.
As I've mentioned there's a pipe band around here that has beautiful blue & gold kilts. The blue is amazingly vibrant.
However they pleated it to the "gold" stripe, Old Gold, a slightly brownish yellow. The result was that the back of the kilts look like a swath of dull yellow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDXUn_Y8lg
I think those kilts are an example of a tartan that needs the balance of its main colours to look good. The kilts would have looked much better pleated to the tartan, or perhaps pleated to the blue area.
Last edited by OC Richard; 5th September 18 at 05:42 PM.
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