Quote Originally Posted by ardchoille View Post
Sounds interesting. What exactly is "kingussie"? Is it just a different pleating arrangement or is there more to a kingussie kilt than that?
Well, to oversimplify.... a Utilikilt is sort of a reverse kinguisse.

In a "regular" kilt the pleats all point the same direction, all the way round yer backside until they end in one reverse pleat on the far right side. On the left side of your body the pleats "point" to the back, but on the right side of your body they "point" to the front.

In a kinguisse kilt the pleats point "to the back" from both sides, and meet in the middle of your rumpus. In other words, the pleats on the left side of your body are exactly the same as a "regular" kilt, but the pleats on the RIGHT side of your body at aligned in the opposite direction from a "regular kilt" and they "point" backwards.

downside to this.....you must plan ahead of time where the center of the kilt will be and you don't have a lot of wiggle room here. When you use plain material, it doesn't matter if you're off a bit, and since there's no sett, you can make your pleat depths whatever you want to fit the amount of material you have. Basically what I did was just decide that the seam where I joined the two three-yard pieces of material was going to be the "center of the back" 'and that seam lies right in the middle of the centerline box pleat that all kinguisse kilt have.

Upside to this is that it's easy to lay out half the pleats at a time, which is kind of handy on the sewing machine.

The difference between a kinguisse and a reverse kinguisse is that in the reverse k, the flat part of the rear-centerline box-pleat is on the INSIDE of the kilt, and in a regular k, it's on the OUTSIDE.

Oh, the other two kicks in the kilt to get me going on this project were seeing way2fractious's "Pink Death" camo kilt, which he pleated up as a reverse K, and seeing WalkerK and the Amazing Madalyns young nephew looking sharp in his solid color black kilt.