How do you hand-stitch a Box Pleat?

[Alan H]

Once you have the tapers marked, just edge stitch pleat edge to the next mark. The material underneath folds out into the "box" later.

Exactly.

And here's the thing. One reason you hand-stitch a kilt is because you can more easily hide the stitching. Machine-stitched knife-pleat kilts are top-stitched and the stitching shows. But with a box-pleat put together how w2f describes, you can machine-sew the kilt and NO STITCHING SHOWS.... you get a straighter line in your taper and a stronger join.

Just my dos centavos. (I made mine this way).