Quote Originally Posted by fluter View Post
Future earnings/advancement probably trumps. Sigh. Maybe you could test the waters on a special occasion sometime, like St. Andrew's Day.

The fun part is that those good ol' boys, almost to a man, probably have Scots or Scots-Irish heritage. If you could take the ribbing, and give as good as you got, you'd probably have a lot of fun with them.

That strikes me as a rather good idea, given your understandable concerns. Folk are probably more likely to accept it if it's a special occasion thing? And if you do St Andrew's Day, Burns night, your birthday, the work Christmas party (or the equivalent) then if people view it as your "especially smart" workwear, it'd maybe be less likely that anyone would be snickering?

Of course if that works out, then you can expand it to other notable Scottish dates like the opening of the Parliament at Holyrood; Billy Connolly's birthday and the Battle of Bannockburn, and you'll end up wearing your kilt to work at least once a month.

Seriously though - unless and until you feel confident and comfortable about doing it, I'd err on the side of the workwear status quo.