badly pressed pleats ruins effect

**OC Richard** · 20th June 11, 04:13 AM

Wowza... take a look at this old MOD Seaforth Highlanders kilt being sold on Ebay.

All is well until you see the back!

Who could have, when going to press the pleats, NOT noticed that each pleat is supposed to have a white line going down it?

I've never seen a kilt pressed this badly before.

BTW I believe this kilt was made as a boxpleated kilt but at the bottom of the pleats (in other closeup photos in the Ebay listing) you can see that they've pressed them as knife pleats.

**CDNSushi** · 20th June 11, 04:17 AM

Wow! That must be some kind of crime against kilting! The kilt police need to make an arrest here, I think.

I just wonder whether that kilt could be restored from such butchery... A perfect illustration of why you should baste your pleats before you press your kilt.

**biblemonkey** · 20th June 11, 05:02 AM

AGH! Poor thing...

**MacSpadger** · 20th June 11, 05:30 AM

I had a Seaforth kilt just like this years ago when I joined my first pipe band, (which was formed by ex-Seaforths). These kilts do indeed have box pleats.
I found that the box pleating didn't require any additional care compared to knife pleating. I did hand wash it once, and the 22oz blanket quality material was a challenge to press.

I most certainly agree that this is the worst case of badly pressed pleats I have seen. What a shame.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 20th June 11, 05:32 AM

Seaforth kilts are indeed box pleated, but whomever pressed the kilt this way apparently did not know that. I wonder if they thought they were "fixing" the pleats?!

**Spartan Tartan** · 20th June 11, 05:38 AM

What a shame. It's exactly this type of outcome that makes me question having someone else clean/press my kilt (that doesn't do kilts regularly, anyway).

**Cowher** · 20th June 11, 07:50 AM

Just out of curiosity can it be rescued?

I have my local dry cleaners do my kilts but we have two catholic schools in my town and the girls uniform is a kilt. So they know how to press them. I have even went to pick my kilt up one time and saw them taking out basting stitches. Best of all they only charge me $7 total cleaned and pressed.

**artificer** · 20th June 11, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

I've never seen a kilt pressed this badly before.

Ouch! Richard, this sort of thread really should come with a "not safe for early morning viewing" warning attached.

What a terrible way to start the day, poor kilt.

Just imagine the poor devil whose job it'll be to re-press that properly. Might as well go for the full clean/press at that point.

**CMcG** · 20th June 11, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by artificer

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Just imagine the poor devil whose job it'll be to re-press that properly.

Aye, that will be a big job, especially if someone wants to put the box pleats back into it! And by box pleats, I assume we are talking about military box pleats and not the style of say, Matt Newsome's box pleats?

**paulhenry** · 20th June 11, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by CMcG

Aye, that will be a big job, especially if someone wants to put the box pleats back into it! And by box pleats, I assume we are talking about military box pleats and not the style of say, Matt Newsome's box pleats?

Correct!
Standard box pleats tend to be much wider, Military box pleats are usually fairly narrow