Pleating and tartan comparisons

[staticsan]

Ah... now i understand what "pleat to the sett" means! :-D

There's unfortunately another version: it's called "pleat to the random". I'm sure you can imagine what this looks like. This id often done in kilts made down to a price (*wince*).

Wade.

[sydnie7]

Ah... now i understand what "pleat to the sett" means! :-D

There's unfortunately another version: it's called "pleat to the random". I'm sure you can imagine what this looks like. This id often done in kilts made down to a price (*wince*).

Wade.

It may be that off-price kilts are "pleated to the random" as a matter of economy, and not as a deliberate choice. But Matt Newsome has pointed out that some of the earliest "little kilts" (that survive today at museums such as The Scottish Tartans Museum are randomly pleated -- marking their evolution from the great kilt.

All part of the lore and history!