Quote Originally Posted by AlamoQOCH View Post
Anyway, more importantly, I need to find a kilt-maker who can do the 'military' pleats in the back (so that the tartan pattern is maintained showing intact across the pleated back). I realize I might have to source the material directly myself from a woolen mill in Scotland. One kiltmaker in Scotland recommended "Chisholms" in Inverness. Anyone know anything about them? Any recommendations here in USA?
I dont recall where I read this, or if it was accurate, but I beleave the militery fashion is to pleat to the stripe, meaning that round the back, where the pleats are, you get the vertical stripes in the patter showing on each pleat.
What you're describing, I think is 'pleated to set' which was the normal way of making kilts outside the armed forces.
Also, IIRC, militry kilts are generaly knife pleated and 8 to 8 yards of wool.