Poll: Kilts made to the stripe or sett

[cavscout]

The only tartan kilt I am really eager to get my hands on is a fraser hunting USAK, and the obvious choice there would be to pleat to the bright red stripe. However, I like the look of the tartan as is, and I think I'd feel a bit like a baboon with that much red on my @$$.

View of Sett


Pleat to Stripe


I plan to get a TANK in Fraser hunting Ancient (eventually) with it pleated to the white stripe. I think that will look great in contrast to the brown base.

[Rampant Lion]

I prefer tartans pleated to sett. I do think some tartans look really good pleated to stripe, but I think ALL tartans look great pleated to sett. I figure if you like a tartan well enough to have a kilt made it in, why not show it off (the sett) the whole way around the kilt?

[Riverkilt]

This may all be in my mind...but something to consider.

I have four "military" tartan kilts. Only one is pleated to the stripe.

Rocky pleated my Army semi-trad to the sett, my Navy semi-trad to the stripe.

Kathy Lare pleated my Leatherneck and Royal Air Force hand sewns to the sett. Though I did talk to her about military box pleats...

What I have found in the wearing of the kilts is that the military tartans pleated to the sett can also be used as sort of "nice looking tartan" kilts. In my mind....they seem more versatile...like I wore the Leatherneck to a wedding as a nice looking tartan kilt that coordinated well with my jacket.

In my mind...pleated to the stripe makes the kilt more of a "uniform" type kilt...like I should be marching in a parade with a platoon of other guys in the same kilt.

Pleated to the sett, the kilt "honors" the service and my kin who served and seems -in my mind - to be more of a social kilt than an on parade kilt.

But that's all in my mind...may not be in yours.

Ron

[bjproc]

thanks again for the this info

so i take it a military tartans are probably better suited to be pleated to the stripe

[davedove]

thanks again for the this info

so i take it a military tartans are probably better suited to be pleated to the stripe

Not necessarily, a lot (I don't know if they all are) of official military kilts are pleated to stripe and that is a sort of convention for military tartans, but it's certainly not required for civilian wear. Again, it all depends on your taste.

If you are wearing a kilt as part of a uniform, you have to follow the uniform regulations. Otherwise, you're free to do as you please.

As you will find repeated often on the forum, THERE ARE NO KILT POLICE.

[bjproc]

Not necessarily, a lot (I don't know if they all are) of official military kilts are pleated to stripe and that is a sort of convention for military tartans, but it's certainly not required for civilian wear. Again, it all depends on your taste.

cheers

As you will find repeated often on the forum, THERE ARE NO KILT POLICE.

[cavscout]

As I recall from the many scholars we have hear, pleating to the stripe was more a design decision made to save cloth as they could get more kilts out the same amount of cloth if they pleated to the stripe. This budgetary decision has become a "convention" that is widely accepted and for those of us who relish the military traditions, it is a feature greatly enjoyed.

[Colin]

It totally depends on the tartan, but on a whole, I prefer my kilts pleated to the sett. I always think of pleating to the stripe as a military thing, but that's just my opinion.

I have seen both look really good.

[Macman]

It totally depends on the tartan, but on a whole, I prefer my kilts pleated to the sett. I always think of pleating to the stripe as a military thing, but that's just my opinion.

I have seen both look really good.

Same for me. Some tartans, when pleated to the stripe, end up looking to me like they have big horizontal stripes, and I'm not fond of that look. Maybe it's just my eyes. I have one kilt pleated to the stripe and the rest are to the sett, so I'm not anti-stripe.

[ChattanCat]

Stripe, I like the way you can change the look of the tartan from the back to front. Kind of boring if it is the same all the way around.