A saree fights you on the morning of an event. The pleats never fall the same
way twice, someone is always holding a pin, and it eats the half-hour you didn’t
have.
Pre-pleating settles all of that beforehand. The pleats are measured to your
height, set, and secured, so on the day the saree goes on in minutes and hangs
exactly the way it did when I set it.
Worth knowing
Pleats are set to your height and how you like the saree to sit — so it
helps to tell me the blouse and the footwear you’ll wear with it. A two-inch
heel changes where the pleats need to end.