Royal Regiment of Scotland

[BEEDEE]

All the SCOTS battalions wear box pleat kilts, although prior to the formation of the RRS the Black Watch kilts were knife pleats,

That's an interesting change as I believe all the old regiments used knife pleats. Do you think this is a cost saving measure? - less material needed and probably easier to make.

Brian

[Jock Scot]

That's an interesting change as I believe all the old regiments used knife pleats. Do you think this is a cost saving measure? - less material needed and probably easier to make.

Brian

I stand to be corrected here, but I seem to recall that the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders had box pleats.Perhaps I am wrong?

[Nervous Jock]

I stand to be corrected here, but I seem to recall that the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders had box pleats.Perhaps I am wrong?

You are indeed correct, I doubt it was adopted from cost cutting, probably more by the action man decision making process