to pleat or not to pleat!?

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Once playing with some pleating... I applied it to a basic skirt as an over layer type of thing. I initially wanted these random pleats to texturize the skirt but the outcome has not appealed to the aesthetic I was hoping for. So as of now... I don't think I'll further this exploration into pleating. I know that if I rearrange the pleats, and reorganize that I can get a different outcome... but I don't think I will use it. As I feel like I'm straying away from where I was originally looking at! And I don't want my designs to look commercial...so I guess I need to reevaluate the direction I want my work to go.