Article: Pleats and thank you: for fall, fashion returns to the fold.(FASHION FLASH)(Brief article)

There are box pleats, cartridge pleats, fluted pleats, and plisse pleats. There are even Watteau pleats, named after the French painter Antoine Watteau. But the most common sort in evidence this season is the accordion variety: permanent folds of equal width in alternating opposite directions.

While there is not, as some have argued with hemlines, a correlation between pleats and socio-political ...

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