Advice on Kilt

[TheGratefulNed]

Great looking kilt, and very nice shoes.

Some help understanding, please, the "pleats stitched down" part. Meaning no basting holding the pleats in place during shipping?

I think if you lift the liner you might not find anything else under there. Fear naught - it is not difficult at all to hand stitch in a stabilizer to keep the tartan cloth from stretching and distorting.

Thanks Taskr and Tobus! I'm definitely happy that I picked it up; can't beat the price for the quality of product I received and it fits well despite being an off-the-rack kilt.

There were not any basting stitches, but that's not what I was talking about. Perhaps it's a misunderstanding on my part, but from reading some other threads on here about people making or modifying their own kilts, I got the impression that there were a couple common methods of adding stitches across or along the pleating to help the pleats keep their shape.

If it doesn't have a stabilizer (haven't checked yet, my evenings and weekends have been absurdly busy this past week or two), I'll definitely add one, but at this point that will be an after-Burns-Night task. Before the dinner, I still need to shorten the sleeves on the Argyle I bought and make some flashes.

A couple questions for the group.
Is there some trick with polishing brogued shoes to minimize or eliminate the little holes being filled with shoe polish? I'd rather not have to go through with a tiny brush or toothpick or some such device and clean out each hole individually after polishing.
What about buffing them? I'm afraid that the cloth I would normally use for smooth shoes will catch on the jagged edges of the leather (the V-shaped edging where two layers of leather meet) and will slowly pull on all those little corners, either causing the leather to split or just stick up instead of laying flat. Do you just have to buff carefully and in one direction over those areas? Is there something better for buffing brogued shoes than a soft, smooth, lint-free cloth?