'Kingussie' Pleated

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Here's another one!



I made this one with reversed pleats for just that reason, but honestly I don't see much difference in the way it "sits" in my truck. (and learning how to sweep with my left hand has been somewhat annoying).

I wonder if that's because you have to climb up into the cab of a pick up truck, where you merely slide into a motorcar? Anyhow, I think it looks sharp.

[Pleater]

Ah well - if you will insist on driving on the wrong side of the road - naturally your pleats will run the wrong way. At least if you ever drive a car in the UK you'll not have any trouble.

I believe that the incident at the cross roads - (when my kilt blew up and diplayed a lot of lace liner edging and there was a shunt as a driver did not notice that the lights had changed to red) could have been due to the Kingussie pleating. I still have a couple of early kilts which I have never altered to the reverse or 'Ghillie' Kingussie style. The wind was from one side, but it always is very blustery there as it swirls around the open area in front of the parish church. It gives a kilt wings.

If you fold a strip of paper into a Kingussie style then pull gently on the centre fold you will see that it will open out very easily. It is probably the style of kilt for a runner to wear as it would tend to flow behind him rather than fall against his legs.

I find that the Ghillie Kingussie normally flys up even less than a knife pleated kilt as the folds tend to wrap around the body.

My kilts have evolved over the time I have been wearing them, and as I tended to use any material I had around at first, and remade them in different styles I know that the lighter ones in particular are far more stable in the Ghillie Kingussie style, even without the fell being sewn down. As I almost always wear the kilt as an outer layer there is a lot more brinkman ship about mine than most.

Combined with the reduced tendency to snag, having the pleats facing backwards on both sides is the style I have settled on and will be wearing from now on.

[BoldHighlander]

I still have a couple of early kilts which I have never altered to the reverse or 'Ghillie' Kingussie style. The wind was from one side, but it always is very blustery there as it swirls around the open area in front of the parish church. It gives a kilt wings.

If you fold a strip of paper into a Kingussie style then pull gently on the centre fold you will see that it will open out very easily. It is probably the style of kilt for a runner to wear as it would tend to flow behind him rather than fall against his legs.

I find that the Ghillie Kingussie normally flys up even less than a knife pleated kilt as the folds tend to wrap around the body.

'Ghillie' Kingussie?