Who wears a Kingussie Pleated kilt?

[greenguzzi]

Well... if you're trying to use too much yardage in the kingussie, you'll end up with no place to put all the extra cloth needed to create the first knife pleat on either side of the central box pleat.

Oh yeah, of course, thanks . It was a dumb question really. My only excuse is that it's just past 2am here and I'm not thinking straight! Time for bed I think.

[Ryan Ross]

Oh yeah, of course, thanks . It was a dumb question really. My only excuse is that it's just past 2am here and I'm not thinking straight! Time for bed I think.

Nah, not a dumb question at all, really. Even Matt had to think twice about that issue, while he was making the kilt, so there's no shame!

[Tommie]

Wait a second here.
The kilt I told you I am making,I turned the pleats toward the rear on each side.
Is this not Kingussie style? If not I wasted a lot of time.
Im making this Kilt for hiking as I stated way back in this thread,and it just made more sense to me that it would not tend to hang on brush as bad if the pleats faced the rear.

Leave it to me to make it wrong.Oh well,I still can use it anyway.

[Ryan Ross]

Wait a second here.
The kilt I told you I am making,I turned the pleats toward the rear on each side.
Is this not Kingussie style? If not I wasted a lot of time.
Im making this Kilt for hiking as I stated way back in this thread,and it just made more sense to me that it would not tend to hang on brush as bad if the pleats faced the rear.

Leave it to me to make it wrong.Oh well,I still can use it anyway.

It sounds to me like you made what people tend to call a "reverse kingussie" style of pleating. While not historical (so far as we know), people who have them seem to say that they are wonderful for hiking/tramping through the brush. Also, many of the "neo-traditional" style of kilts tend to have this arrangement (Utilikilts, etc...).

I bet you'll be very pleased with your kilt, once it's finished, and not find your time wasted at all.

[Pleater]

Don't fret, Tommie, the reverse Kingussie is the best design for hiking - I started out making all my kilts Kingussie style and have remade all but one of them in the reverse way having had to go back and retrieve one from a particularly dense set of bushes. It was a case of leave it behind or rip it free, so I decided to preserve my handiwork at the cost of a few scratches.