Pleating Opinion

[OC Richard]

Really? If done at both sides, it shouldn't do anything with the centre of the back - or am I wrong?

At least with my own kilts (due to weight variations) and the kilts of the Pipe Bands I've been in, kilts have been made larger or smaller by the simple expedient of moving the buckle(s) on the wearer's right side.

The apron isn't being altered. So when the right-hand buckle (or pair of buckles) is moved further back (towards the back of the kilt's centre-line) to make the kilt smaller, or moved further forward (towards the under-apron) to make the kilt bigger, when the kilt is worn with the upper apron centred the back of the kilt is thrown off.

For sure this is far from ideal and the proper way to do it would be to rebuild the kilt, or better yet get a new kilt. (Kiltmakers I've known would much rather make a kilt from scratch than take an existing kilt all apart and re-build it.)

Nevertheless with kilts like mine, without belt-loops and pleated to the stripe, the back of the kilt has no centre-line to be thrown off.