odd pleating in Royal Stewart kilt

[OC Richard]

And don't forget that this may not have been the kiltmaker's decision. The customer may have _asked_ to have it pleated this way!

I wonder how such a customer might have worded the request? "I want a kilt pleated to the red block, but in two places, splayed far apart on my bum, I want a narrow dark area, the narrow one that's in between the two wider dark areas, but I want the dark stripes a little bit wider. And, on one side of one of these groups, I want two dark stripes instead of one." That seems unlikely to me, but then again, I'm sure you've gotten all sorts of strange requests over the years.

When I called the pleating "random" I meant random in relation to the tartan. It doesn't in any way reproduce the tartan as one would expect in a kilt pleated to the sett.

Here's an equivalent example: let's say you come across a kilt in Modern Gordon, pleated to the yellow line. But, in two places, there's an individual pleat which doesn't show the yellow line. It would strike me as strange, as an aberration, rather than an interesting artistic choice.