Corduroy K-Kilt #1

[turpin]

I really like the kinguisse pleats. In a wool kilt you should get great swing to both sides, rather than just to the left as a trad knife pleat does.

[BozemanboB]

It's as if I've pulled up to the house in a sparkly-new surprise BMW and my wife walks out and says "why did you install red spark plug wires?"

SHEEEEEEESH!!!!!!

(We have a no-shoes rule in the house so I have to wear my crocs. I'll see if I can get some outside pics today since the weather looks to be excellent.)

I agree with the sporran chain comments - a friend is a leatherworker so I'm going to hire him to make me some new accessories. I like the suede-backed chain idea.

I'm willing to bet those 1000 pts that I'm the ONLY corduroy kilt-wearer in Montana!


boB

[Pleater]

Well you go and make such an excellent kilt - stripy socks and crocs just will not do at all.

Now, a nine yard military box/Kinguisse wool blend pleated to the stripe has a swing to die for. I pinned together the one I am working on at the moment and it shimmies like a grass skirt on a hula dancer.

The cotton kilt with 50 pleats isn't a bad mover either.

However, there is something saddly wrong with the grey pinstripe. It is somehow skewed. I might have to take it apart and start over, or even abandon it entirely.

So much fabric, so little time.

[Arlen]

very nice, man. Look good.

[Roan Carter]

I'm happy to see the kinguisse pleats. Little details like that in kiltmaking should never be forgotten.

[cessna152towser]

An excellent looking kilt.

[andyfg]

Looks very good.

[way2fractious]

Nicely done. These kinds of kilts are great for everyday wear where one would dread subjecting an expensive wool kilt to the abuse (the wool could take it - just not the pocketbook!)

As a minor clarification, however, the Kinguisse style has the center back box pleat on "top" and all the knife pleat edges, left and right, point toward the front. One picture posted a long while back shows an historical example of such pleats.

The inverted or reversed Kinguisse style has the center back box pleat "inside" and all the knife pleat edges, left and right, point toward the back. This is the pleating style Utilikilts uses.

Both Kinguisse styles and the standard box pleat style all result in a symmetrical kilt; the knife pleat and military box pleat styles result in an asymmetrical kilt.

[BozemanboB]

Well then, I stand corrected. A Reverse Kinguisse. Sounds kind of more exotic anyway!

I'm considering my next project. Might be a camo reverse Kinguisse. Presently I'm greatly enjoying making these "casual" kilts and I like wearing them as much than my tartans, partly because they're unique and partly because *I* made them!!


boB

[Dirk Skene]

That has got to be the ultimate in casual I like