Knife pleated V Box pleated

[OC Richard]

Barb that's a very interesting illustration. It seems likely to me that, if followed from top to bottom, the illustration shows the exact evolution that army kilts went through in the 19th century (starting in the early 19th century with four yards and ending it with eight yards).

What I wonder is: are there extant army kilts from various periods in the 19th century which display these various stages?

I surmise that the steady increase in yardage was driven by the repeatedly increasing sett size, which meant increasingly deeper pleats (the kilts always being pleated to the same line). I have a photo of a Waterloo era kilt with a tiny sett size, but by the late 19th century the sett sizes were huge.

Matt has photos of several of these, very interesting

http://kiltmaker.blogspot.com/2013/0...ox-pleats.html