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.
I don't recall ever making such a statement. I also don't think that the switch over from pleating to stripe to pleating to sett was a contributing factor either. I say this based on the fact that the earliest reference I know of to pleating to set is c. 1900 while the increase of material in the kilt grew from nominally 4 yards to nominally 8 yards over the course of the 19th century.

I honestly think the increase in the amount of cloth used was a fashion trend, and probably facilitated by the fact that as the nineteenth century progressed, the kilt changed from being an everyday garment to a more ceremonial (special occasion) garment.