Quote Originally Posted by Guinness>water View Post
I have read(I think on Albanach.org) that it was a larger sett size that made kilts go from 4-5 yards to the now standard 8 yards. Please correct me if I'm wrong Matt.
That's not the case. The main reason for the increase in the amount of cloth was the introduction of pleating to sett rather than stripe.

If I understand the above correctly, I wonder what the average (if there was such a thing) sett size was before they began to grow?
Historically, i.e. in the c18th there was no such as a standard sett size and probably not in the majority of the C19th either.