horrid pressing boxpleat to knifepleat

**OC Richard** · 5th December 13, 04:40 AM

We see this on Ebay from time to time, a boxpleated kilt (Seaforth, Cameron, or Argyll) on which an ignorant person has badly pressed the pleats from their original shape to ordinary knifepleated shape.

This one is on Ebay now, "vintage mens wool tartan Scottish kilt"

Also note that the top of the kilt has had an extra strip of (almost) matching tartan added.

Here is the auction. You only have two hours!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MENS...item2a34994635

**McElmurry** · 5th December 13, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Here is the auction. You only have two hours!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MENS...item2a34994635

Two hours to what...run and hide?

**MacMillans son** · 5th December 13, 07:36 AM

I find the horizontal line of stitching at the top of the pleats to be an equally attractive feature. Perhaps the new lining was stitched through at the bottom? I assume its seen multiple reconstruction events over its life.

**creagdhubh** · 5th December 13, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by McElmurry

Two hours to what...run and hide?

Precisely!

**Grizzled Ian** · 5th December 13, 03:01 PM

Ugh! Simply ugh!

But OCR, sincere thanks for posting the image, quite instructive to see the mangled wreckage to avoid when cruising the on-line merchants.

**Tartan Tess** · 5th December 13, 03:06 PM

It can be saved!

**Hawk** · 5th December 13, 03:10 PM

Richard, you mean your not going to get it and save it from utter humiliation and further destruction?

Hawk

**room2ndfloor** · 5th December 13, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Tartan Tess

It can be saved!

Yes, but at what effort? First, one would have to carefully de-construct it (take apart all seams), then steam the fabric flat, then re-make the kilt. Anyone with the skill to do it would be better occupied to make a kilt starting with new tartan fabric.

**Tartan Tess** · 5th December 13, 03:25 PM

Yes, it would be a pain in the butt but I don't believe you'd have to take the kilt apart to press the box pleats back in if that is how the kilt was made.
I don't know how cheap this is going for....
....and now that i have really looked at it I can't see how it could be a box pleat to begin with anyway.

**room2ndfloor** · 5th December 13, 03:31 PM

The pressing is not the only problem. Someone put extra fabric just below the waist, giving the line of a woman's yoked skirt. Who is going to wear that botch-up, even well-pressed?