Accordion pleats are mini knife pleats and they are usually no more than ½” wide. If you want to get even teenier, there are Crystal pleats that sit around 1/8” wide. These fiddly kinds of pleats are often made by professional pleaters and heat-treated to keep their shape.
Learn how to sew box pleats and inverted pleats to create texture or manage fullness on a garment with this free photo tutorial on Craftsy.
Add a kick pleat and a little button tab at the top of the pleat. Back to basics When I first joined the uniform for women was a pencil skirt with a kick pleat and woolly tights that itched like mad.
The knife pleat is considered to be the most basic pleat. You create a fold in the fabric at a predetermined width, and press in one direction on the right side of the fabric. Unlike other types of pleats, knife pleats always travel in a gang. Just one or two would be considered more a tuck than a pleat. Because you are working in multiples, you need to mark your fabric very accurately.
These clothes combine beauty with functionality: they're light and wrinkle-proof, they don't need to be dry-cleaned, and they can be folded to a compact size for easy storage and carrying.