Pleat sew-down

[davecolorado72]

Ok, I bought an unpleated kilt and am regretting it. Instead of just letting it go to waste though I thought I would attempt to have them sewn down. Any advice on the rules here? How far down is sewn down? from what point? Any help would be awesome.

Dave

[O'Neille]

Pleats are sewn down about 1/3 of the drop of the kilt or about 8 inches on a 24 inch kilt. Just a rule of thumb and I think I read it in Barb's book somewhere. O'Neille

[davecolorado72]

thanks for the help on this. so 1/8 inch down from the top? Great pic btw...very nice bike...and the docs are great too.

Dave

[JimB]

No, 8 inches from the top of the kilt. That's just an estimate thought because that's based on a 24 inch long kilt. Just make it about a third of what you've got.
In other words, from the top of the kilt down to about 1/3 of it's length.
By the way, where did you get a kilt sewn like that?

[MacWage]

The intent is to get the fell to the "horizontal center" of the rump, which should be 1/3 of the way down on a proper length kilt. Any higher and the rump "pulls" the pleats. Any lower and it doesn't "move" right (it is too "stiff" below the rump). At least that is my understanding/opinion. The proper way to "dart"/shape/(I forget the correct name-> tired) the fells varies depending on the shape of the rump lower back region and the number/spacing of pleats