A lot to describe, but in practice just a minute or two. Certainly much less time than to set up the ironing board, plug in the iron and wait for it to heat up.

Trying to wrestle a kilt on an ironing board is what led me to the clip method.

Did try Ham's way of ironing kilts on the carpet, which is the ONLY way to iron a kilt...but still a LOT of pleat positioning hassle and there's not a lot of room on the floor of my bachelor cave...and it ain't often very clean...

Weighted clips are fast and easy and work.

Ron