Pleating Army tartan to stripe

[arrogcow]

Ok, I'm looking for opinions here.

I'm one of the guys (hopefully) getting a US Army tartan from USA kilts. Prior to ordering, I had decided that I wanted it pleated to stripe. Specifically the green stripe right after (to the right of) the yellow stripe. In other words the vertical yellow would be just covered by each plead thus hiding it while you are standing still and flashing as you walked.

Rocky says he can do it, but has really cautioned me that it may look funny (lawn chair butt was his term) since the tartan is fairly dark except for the yellow stripe.

Anyway, I have tried to create an approximation of what the pleating would look like (it's a quick job, my photoshop computer is down at the moment).

First the tartan (at least I'm hoping it will be this dark and not the bright version that Sport Kilt sells)


Next I tried to recreate the tartan with an online tartan designer (it's not perfect, but it's close)


Finally what the stripe would look like across my backside


So what do ya'll think? Good, bad, I'm nuts. How would you pleat it? As my 4th tartan I really would like something pleated to stripe.

Adam

[Warlock]

To the sett! stripes would make your arse look wide!

[Woodsheal]

Some time ago one of the members here (can't remember who!) posted pics of his new US Army kilt. I saved the pics, 'cause I want to get one eventually.

Anyways, his is pleated to the stripe military fashion. I think it looks great:

[cloves]

What would happen if you pleated it to the vertical blue? You avoid the brightness of the vertical yellow. The vertical blue is still visiual, but more subdued.

*edit*

i think the problem with the way you are proposing is that it's not really pleated to a vertical stripe at all.

here's sorta what pleating to the vertical blue might look like

[possingk]

Some time ago one of the members here (can't remember who!) posted pics of his new US Army kilt. I saved the pics, 'cause I want to get one eventually.

Anyways, his is pleated to the stripe military fashion. I think it looks great:

I agree with Woodsheal, I like this pleating. Pleating with no stripe kind of reminds me of a lawn chair. But that is just my opinion, I really like pleating to a stripe that makes the back look completely different from the front, it is pretty cool.

[ccga3359]

To the sett! stripes would make your arse look wide!

US Army, gotta be to the stripe. IMHO yellow stripe - but this is your kilt get something that will make you happy.

[chasem]

I think the yellow line looks great.

But since seeing Barb's Modern MacCallum pleated to the white stripe, I think maybe pleated to one of the light brown lines might look good. (I think it's light brown anyway.)

[cloves]

to the brown might be cool, but it will have diffent colored lines on either side.
TO one side of the brown is green, to the other is very dark, looks almost black. Might look something like this...


the way I pleated it above is a bit different than the way Barb did the MacCallum. I did it to EVERY brown line in the Army tartan so that I ended up with extra stripes of color in between.
I think the MacCallum was to the same white stripe in every repeat? Barb help...my brain is hurting.

[arrogcow]

I think the yellow line looks great.

But since seeing Barb's Modern MacCallum pleated to the white stripe, I think maybe pleated to one of the light brown lines might look good. (I think it's light brown anyway.)

The way I'm talking about pleating would look very much like the one in the third post on that thread.

On the other hand, I really do like the look of the pleating to the yellow possingk posted.

Adam

[chasem]

err right. I intended to mention that that's why I brought up the kilt Barb pleated to the stripe in that post. I almost pleated one that way, but thought it would look odd.

But then I saw that MacCallum, and since then i've really wanted to pleat one that way.