They Should Wear Kilts

[mookien]

Technically, I suppose, this should be in the "Kilts Not in the Media" Forum, but we don't have one.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06...est=latestnews

[CDNSushi]

Rule #9
– This forum is not the place for the discussion of cross-dressing.

[mookien]

Rule #9
– This forum is not the place for the discussion of cross-dressing.

Of course. But, the post and the article are NOT about cross dressing. They're about guys protesting their inability to stay cool in hot weather, because their employer won't allow them to wear shorts. Thus the title, "They should wear kilts". They may have been able to do that without protest.

[thecompaqguy]

Was afraid to comment on this having seen the reaction to OP's post, but in one of the news articles in the Daily Mail, someone commenting suggested they should wear kilts instead of the skirts, but it's one of the company's silly rules that it's either trousers or skirts. An Arriva Tartan would be good, but I can't see it happening. Where I live, the same company run the buses, but I rarely see the drivers wearing their proper uniform (sometimes they are wearing baseball caps, smh)... After all, a kilt is a skirt, but there were no kilts in their uniform choice

[mookien]

I agree. A kilt is a type of skirt. Thus, it logically falls under the company's stated policy. According to the article (partial article, I guess) on Fox, a company spokesman "didn't rule out a change of the company's uniform policy". Maybe a revised policy will specifically allow kilts and we'll see kilted conductors on Swedish commuter lines. That would be a hoot, but I'm not holding my breath.

[cessna152towser]

A kilt would certainly be more mainstream.
By sheer coincidence I have been at my local railway heritage centre today where I am training for driver and guard duties and faced with the same dilemma, too warm for trousers while shorts seemed inappropriate for a duty which involves interfacing with the public, and I have been wearing a nontrad black denim kilt which hems just at the bottom of the knee, while operating the train doors and later in the afternoon driving the train.