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a battlefield uniform that became a dance floor flex with structural engineering levels of pleating.
means A knee-length pleated skirt-like garment, traditionally made of tartan wool, worn by men as part of Scottish Highland dress.
from The word comes from a Scandinavian source — compare Danish 'kilte,' meaning to tuck up or gird clothing around the body, which is exactly what the early garment did: a length of cloth belted and folded at the waist. The verb 'to kilt' (to tuck up) appears in English first, and the noun for the garment followed. The tailored, sewn-pleat version we picture today is a later refinement of that older wrapped-and-belted 'great kilt.'
pleat counta single kilt hides up to 29 sewn pleats
fabric weighttraditional kilts use about 8 yards of wool
regimental ruletrue Scotsmen wear nothing underneath, by custom
banned weaponBritain outlawed Highland dress after the 1745 rising
not a skirtthe pleats sit only at the back, not around