very narrow color blocks

[Katia]

so that you can avoid making the kilt and then discovering the lawn chair...

To be fair, that one more says "beach towel" to me. (What tartan is that?)

[Barb T]

Our legacy beach towels trend more toward The Little Mermaid or volcanoes or puffins....with the occasional shark towel...

And you’re probably way too classy to have ever had one of those plastic webbing lawn chairs . And I’m not sure they even sell them any more! I think you have to be “of a certain age”, as they say, to understand the reference. “Older than dirt” is how I phrased it to my five year old grandson once. He paused for a nanno and then asked, “Babaa, how old is dirt?” Once I’d stopped giggling, I had to, as a geologist, tell him that dirt is pretty darned old...

[OC Richard]

Not a kiltmaker, but I will say that I always prefer pleating to a line or pleating to a block over pleating to the sett.

There are two things I like about pleating to a line or block:

1) It gives you two different "looks" in the same kilt.

2) It follows the principle of Form Follows Function.

As I've often said, I do recognise that there are certain tartans the effect of which is dependent on being able to see all the colours in their normal proportions, where IMHO no pleating other than pleating to the sett looks good.

With Hollyrood, pleating to the blue block seems to naturally present itself. Seems to me that pleating it to all those lines results in busy pleats.

With my Isle Of Skye it's cheating in a way, at first glance it appears to be pleated to the block but the blocks have subtle lines in them. I saw somebody else wearing an IOS pleated that way, it's my favourite approach to pleating this tartan, perhaps because it best maintains the tartan's colour-balance.

[jhead7090]

Our legacy beach towels trend more toward The Little Mermaid or volcanoes or puffins....with the occasional shark towel...

And you’re probably way too classy to have ever had one of those plastic webbing lawn chairs . And I’m not sure they even sell them any more! I think you have to be “of a certain age”, as they say, to understand the reference. “Older than dirt” is how I phrased it to my five year old grandson once. He paused for a nanno and then asked, “Babaa, how old is dirt?” Once I’d stopped giggling, I had to, as a geologist, tell him that dirt is pretty darned old...

My mother, rest her soul, had 2 of them on her patio in fact their still there. And you can actually still get them at amazon, of course the price has gone up.

[Barb T]

We definitely had them when I was a kid! We even had the chaise longue type (which we, of course, called a chase lounge....). They were actually pretty comfortable in comparison to hard plastic lawn chairs. Did leave an interesting pattern on the back of your legs, if I remember correctly....

[Katia]

Our legacy beach towels trend more toward The Little Mermaid or volcanoes or puffins....with the occasional shark towel...

And you’re probably way too classy to have ever had one of those plastic webbing lawn chairs . And I’m not sure they even sell them any more! I think you have to be “of a certain age”, as they say, to understand the reference. “Older than dirt” is how I phrased it to my five year old grandson once. He paused for a nanno and then asked, “Babaa, how old is dirt?” Once I’d stopped giggling, I had to, as a geologist, tell him that dirt is pretty darned old...

Palm trees. I used to have palm trees, on a sunset beach. I've seen my share of striped beach towels, though.

I never had this type of lawn chair personally, but family? Oh yeah. Ours were that sort that look like straws woven together, though.

Mine are... wait for it... plaid...

We definitely had them when I was a kid! We even had the chaise longue type (which we, of course, called a chase lounge....). They were actually pretty comfortable in comparison to hard plastic lawn chairs. Did leave an interesting pattern on the back of your legs, if I remember correctly....

But did you have the rocking-chair type...

[Barb T]

I'm sure the hadn't been invented yet.....