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The one exception might be if women were allowed to wear skirts and you REALLY REALLY wanted to be a PITA. You might, possibly, be able to force them to either:

A) allow you to wear the kilt,
or
B) make it so they restrict women to trousers/shorts only as well.

The real question is "Do you actually want to be that big a pain for your boss"? (aka- is it really worth the trouble and inevitable bad feelings you'll generate just to be able to wear the kilt at work?)

ith:
Yeah, you might want to speak with a union steward. Then, at least, the decision would move up a rung on the supervision ladder.

If women are allowed to wear skirts in your occupational group, you have a fair shot. But, I could easily see management going with option B, above, just to be spiteful.

Or they could argue a kilt, having more fabric than a woman's skirt, is more of a safety hazard around the machines. It is an industrial environment.

In maintenance, here in the Phoenix area, we had permission at one point to wear shorts because of the heat (nationwide maintenance employees must wear long pants) but our manager changed the policy out of spite, due to unrelated control issues with the union, and there's not much we can do about it.