Kilt Shop Employee Not Allowed to Wear Kilt to Work

[Jock Scot]

Makes perfect sense to me as, at a guess, most people shopping in the Royal Mile would not know a decent kilt, even if they were wearing it!

[robthehiker]

Makes perfect sense to me as, at a guess, most people shopping in the Royal Mile would not know a decent kilt, even if they were wearing it!

Perhaps the high quality shops would be better situated elsewhere.

[davidg]

Makes perfect sense to me as, at a guess, most people shopping in the Royal Mile would not know a decent kilt, even if they were wearing it!

I'm almost tending to agree with Jock. I can only think of one shop in that area where kilts are not worn by the staff and their quality is high. I have shopped there without giving a thought to their lack of kilt wearing whereas in the other shops I tend to be a little disconcerted by the theatricality of it all

My experience of smaller, local kilt makers and highland outfitters in places other than Edinburgh is is that they usually do NOT wear kilts to work and I do not find that particularly unusual. The stock is plainly visible to see and feel the quality without necessarily there being a need for it to be worn. Similar, surely, to high fashion stores who may have models at the occasional fashion show in store but do not kit out their staff in all the expensive goods for everyday wear

[Phil]

The (very) few quality highlandwear shops don't have their staff wearing kilts. When I enter a fishing shop I don't expect to see the staff wearing waders and holding fishing rods so why should a clothing shop be any different? It seems to me that a substantial proportion of the staff you see in Royal Mile "kilt" shops are wearing turbans anyway.