Quote Originally Posted by artificer View Post
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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:
Excellent points.

I wear a kilt to the office virtually every Friday as a (much more comfortable and distinctive) alternative to the ubiquitous jeans, and I also wear it on Tartan Day, St. Andrew's/St. Patrick's Day, etc. I did not consult with anyone before I did so the first time, but was also ready to resign immediately--and I do mean immediately-- had I been told not to wear it again, because it was deemed inappropriate, unprofessional, violated the dress code, etc. No whining about double standards, my rights being violated, etc. Your employer makes the rules (and most are smart enough to comply with the regulations and laws)--if you don't like them, you leave (yet another advantage of self-employment). Kilted or not, I'm always the best dressed man in the entire company, period. But then, my employer was founded by a Scots-Irish American named Harris whose wife was from Edinburgh, has an executive officer and past-president from Linlithgow, AND its own official tartan--so kilting up for work was not exactly the biggest calculated risk I've ever taken. As Warren Buffett says, better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.