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A pleat in a piece of clothing is a permanent fold that is made in the cloth by folding one part over the other and sewing across the top end of the fold. 褶
In fact there was hardly any color in the show, which started with a parade of nude outfits, mostly slip dresses with pleating details in the back giving the skirts a swish and a kick.
And then there is the strange life force of the Delphos, the way its hem pools on the ground like the spreading roots of a tree, and how the vertical pleating begins to look like bark.