As it happens, it looks like I'm going to take my first plunge in to boxpleated kilts.

For many years this image (early 1850s) has struck me as showing the ideal kilt pleats.

It's somewhere between the modern military boxpleated kilts with IMHO too many pleats, too much fabric, and the pleats too small and the Matt Newsome 4-yard boxpleated kilt with IMHO too few pleats, not enough fabric, and the pleats too big.



As it happens last Saturday I was out at the NorCal Celtic Festival (a Highland Games in fact) and I spotted a gent with a boxpleated kilt very much like that 79th Highlanders kilt above.

Turns out it's a local California maker. I'm sending him 3 yards of double-width heavyweight kilting cloth which IMHO will be perfect.