In one of the more upmarket kilt shops on Edinburgh's Royal Mile I got talking to one of the young male sales assistants and I asked him why none of the staff, himself included, were wearing kilts. He said that he had wanted to wear a kilt to work but his boss had told him that he was already Scottish so there was no need to emphasise the fact by wearing a kilt, and that the company wanted its staff to wear trousers to work as they did not wish to be identified with the "tackier" kilt shops further up the street where many of the staff do wear kilts at work.