If I were a knife pleat...I would face...

[Schiehallion]

As a 'Gay Man' who wears the kilt... My answer to the pleat direction in the way they face reflecting ones sexuality is utter rubbish. My knife pleats all go the same way as they are traditionally made and so do all of my "Gay Gordon" Scottish Country Dance members' kilts with whom I dance.

[Tartan Tess]

As a kilt maker, TRADITIONALLY, as I was taught, pleats fold toward the right.
We in the US, hear alot about getting into cars with the stearing wheels on the right side of the vehicle. Blah Blah woof woof what is easier for sliding into the vehicle etc.
As a kilt maker who does alterations, maybe 10 % of the other makers sew the kilts from what I would consider is the wrong side of the tartan, with the twill going from top right to bottom left.
I thought at first these were left handed kilt makers , and in some cases it may be.
My teacher Elsie, when asked said that the kilt makers made the kilts using the full tartan potential.
In other words, if the tartan fabric came to them with alot of knots and loose ends on one side from the loom, they would flip it and make the kilt acording to what looked better

[kiltedlady]

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Sorry, it was funny to read! But here's my question...why did he care? What if you *had* known and happened to be of that sort of persuasion? Seems like a good way to get clocked up side the head, if you ask me! Just goes to show...stupid is as stupid does! (To quote Forrest Gump again)

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Every time I think I've heard every ridiculous, made-up "fact" about the kilt, along comes another one.....

[Robert Lamb]

I have made over a dozen kilts and ALL of them have left handed pleats..
I am left handed and it is easier to make left leaning pleats.
Sexual orintation has nothing to do with pleats.
Did you ask him if the crease on his trousers are on the front or the back?
The man is a homophobic nut period....
KiltedBob

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

(sigh)... left pleats are useful if you do a lot of kilted driving in a left hand drive car. I also find them useful if one attends a lot of formal dinners (one is supposed to slide into their chair from the left). Other than that...