Quote Originally Posted by Barb T View Post
As always it depends on the size of the sett, the size of the person, the waist-hip differential, and the amount of tartan you have. As it happens, the customer already had a MacPherson kilt (modern, I believe), pleated to the stripe, and it looks great. For the kilt I was making, the combination of the sett size and his measurements (and the fact that he needed a fair amount of pleat taper) put the white stripes very close to the edges of the pleats. I could have solved the problem by not using all 8 yards and making each pleat bigger, but he chose pleating to the sett so that I could use the full kilt length.
Precisely, Barb!

Here is a photo of me wearing a kilt in the Macpherson Red Modern tartan from Lochcarron's Strome range. Whereas I was indeed quite fond of this kilt, I am no longer fond of pleating to the stripe with the various Macpherson tartans. I prefer sett pleating now in order to "show off" the lovely sett all away around. I sold this particular kilt a little while back.