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a fold doing pushups, storing fabric like a coiled spring waiting for your next step
means A pleat is a fold of fabric pressed or stitched into place to add shape, fullness, or decoration to a garment.
from "Pleat" is a variant of "plait," both descended from Middle English and ultimately from Old French "pleit," a fold, which traces back to Latin "plicare," to fold or bend. That same Latin root quietly fathered a whole family of folding words — "apply," "reply," "complicate," "ply" — all bending back to the simple idea of laying one thing over another.
- hidden math
- every pleat stores triple its visible width in fabric
- kilt count
- a traditional kilt hides around 29 pleats
- ancient flex
- Egyptians pleated linen over 4,000 years ago
- accordion logic
- box pleats stack folds facing opposite directions
- engineering trick
- pleats let stiff fabric move without stretching at all
pleated skirt — japanese schoolgirl uniform style, standardized with 120+ knife pleats since the 1920s
accordion pleats — fashion technique creating uniform parallel folds, signature of issey miyake's pleats please line since 1993
inverted pleat — two pleats facing outward meeting in center, common in burberry and traditional scottish kilts