knife pleat

Knife pleats are the most common in modern civilian kilts.

A kilt can be pleated with either box or knife pleats.

Knife pleats can be recognized by the way that they overlap in the seam.

It has sharp, knife pleats falling from a narrow waistband.

Jenny's skirt was red-and-white plaid with knife pleats all the way around.

While the tennis skirt is enjoying a revival this season, beware of knife pleats that begin at the waist and expand out.

Knife pleats are used for basic gathering purposes, and form a smooth line rather than springing away from the seam they have been gathered to.

There were just light ruffles, vents like angel wings cut into the back or the sculpturing of a knife pleat to hold the shape.

Box pleats are knife pleats back-to-back, and have a tendency to spring out from the waistline.

They have the same 3:1 ratio as knife pleats, and may also be stacked to form stacked box pleats.

His trousers were knife pleated, his jacket cut short, and both were spotlessly black against his crisp white shirt.

Any style of pleat can be made in this way, e.g., knife pleats or box pleats.

Her skirt was white, lightweight and flimsy for dance routines, with knife pleats all the way around and two red stripes around the hem.

Mayflower Secondary School's uniform is beige in colour, and for the girls, three unique knife pleats run down the front and back of their skirts.

Age had cut knife pleats in the fragile skin on her cheeks, and her lips were pulled together in a pucker, like a drawstring purse.

They may have box pleats, symmetrical knife pleats, or no pleats at all, and be fastened by studs or velcro instead of buckles.

There are many variations: sharp accordion pleats; the wider, flat box pleats; the classic kilt style, and knife pleating set on hip-hugging bandeaus.

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders use box pleats, while the Black Watch make their kilts of the same tartan with knife pleats.

A knife pleat is a simple fold, while the box pleat is bulkier, consisting of two knife pleats back-to-back.

Choose Your Whimsy Knife pleats, box pleats, shirt pleats and smocking are a few of the lampshade styles offered by Charlotte Moss & Company.

A high school girl in knee socks crosses a hockey field, swinging the skirt of her school uniform "so that the rear knife pleats snapped back and forth like a school of fish when she walked."

Modern kilts may be made with either box pleats or knife pleats, and can be pleated to the stripe or pleated to the sett (see main article Kilts: Pleating and stitching).

They play out, as they did three days ago, in a shirtdress with an unfinished hem, barely perceptible, or a skirt whose conservative gray knife pleats were revealed through a cut shaped like an inverted V in front of its overlay.

The kilt worn by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are traditionally box pleated while those of The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), who also wears Government No. 1 Tartan, are knife pleated.