Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
(snip)...the only style of kilt considered as authentic by any Scotsman is a tartan, knife-pleated kilt, predominately pleated to the sett with a few pleated to the line...
If my memory serves correctly, pleating to the sett was first documented in 1902 and described at that time as a novel new way to pleat a kilt. That means that there very well may be a few Scots still living that were born before knife pleats to the sett had even been invented.