Paul Henry Kilts

Which Style

Paul Henry makes kilts in a time honoured way, whether traditional or contemporary, whether hand sewn or sewn by machine.
Both styles are designed with a high rise, and are fully tailored. All wool kilts have a hand sewn built in stabiliser, pad stitched hair canvas and  internal lining, and two leather straps and buckles

Traditional kilts  have anything between 18 to 32 pleats, this is dependant on many factors, the size of the  wearer, but often more importantly the size of the “sett”- the pattern.
Pleats can be made to the sett, so that from a distance the back of the kilt looks the same as the front, or it can be pleated to the “stripe”where a dominant stripe features on each pleat, this is the norm for military kilts, but the choice is yours. Depending on which stripe is chosen many different effects are possible, and the overall look of the kilt will change considerably, so usually a test strip is pleated to show the variations possible before  making  a final decision.

There are different styles of pleat available as here, not just knife pleats, a full list is here

These kilts are normally  handsewn  although a little bit of machine sewing along the waistband is used for strength.
A traditional kilt normally contain about 8 yards of fabric, but it is possible to create an acceptable traditional kilt with as little as 5 yards, Harris tweed kilts are usually about 5-6 yards simply because of the bulk of the fabric.