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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    Yes indeed! High Viz= High Visability = Safety Vests, Safety jackets,Safety trousers, Hard hats etc and the come in yellow and burnt orange and often with reflective stripes on them as well.
    I guess you could pleat to the reflective stripe....

    I once had a clerical collar of reflective white, you know, for evening services?

    Sometimes here in Ontario, some very cute co-eds get a summer job as flag-folk for construction. Some of them are on the road with pink hard hats, safety boots, and bikinis with safety vests over top. Now, that is high visibility!
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    Hi-Viz

    Well, this is refreshing! Especially when initiated by an old curmudgeon like Jock Scot. I hardly know what to say. I think there is at least one tartan that already qualifies as "hi-viz;" that being Loud McLeod of course. I'm surprised the safety officianados in Scotland haven't adopted it for all of their "hi-viz" attire. When in Edinburgh, we saw a lot of hardworking trades people wearing work trousers, etc. all with reflective hi-viz striping. This is something that is just now being seen in the southeastern US.
    Cheers,

    David
    “If you want people to speak kindly after you’re gone, speak kindly while you’re alive.”
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    Jock:

    If you want to go full-tilt High Viz, you could always opt for one of these!



    Cheers,

    SM
    Shaun Maxwell
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    Quote Originally Posted by ShaunMaxwell View Post
    Jock:

    If you want to go full-tilt High Viz, you could always opt for one of these!



    Cheers,

    SM
    ..........if only it didn't have pockets!
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    Cool There's a SOURCE for that!

    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    ..........if only it didn't have pockets!
    On a lightly trafficked US Interstate Highway in Montana (where ALL the repair work has to be done in the summer), one might be able to pick up one or more of those ALMOST completely realized; the only finishing tool required would be something capable of slicing off the very tops of those traffic cones…

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    Quote Originally Posted by Father Bill View Post
    Sometimes here in Ontario, some very cute co-eds get a summer job as flag-folk for construction. Some of them are on the road with pink hard hats, safety boots, and bikinis with safety vests over top. Now, that is high visibility!
    Wow. I had no idea the US was so far behind Canada. I've never seen that in my country.

    I sure wish we would catch up soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CBH View Post
    Wow. I had no idea the US was so far behind Canada. I've never seen that in my country.

    I sure wish we would catch up soon.
    Around here the "flag folk" that are female... no.
    Tulach Ard

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    There was an outfit in WI that did a fair amount of business with their Fireman's Kilts.

    Tulach Ard

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    https://www.blaklader.se/sv/produkt/...arselkilt#3399

    Another one - but still with pockets. From Swedish Blåkläder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GG View Post
    https://www.blaklader.se/sv/produkt/...arselkilt#3399

    Another one - but still with pockets. From Swedish Blåkläder.
    Actually that first one, posted by Shaun Maxwell in Texas, is also a Blåkläder, an older design, I think, and I see from your link that they have now changed the style slightly.
    I have 2 Blåkläder kilts, 'workmen's kilts' in black and in dark tan, copiously equipped with pockets and loops and compartmented pockets with slots for narrow tools like screwdrivers and wider ones for pliers – hammers go on a loop. When I used to do more DIY, I wore the black one; I use the tan one for garden work.

    Blåkläder (literally, 'Blue Clothes') are a Swedish workmen's wear company, and to my recollection the kilt was invented as a joke at their annual fashion show about fifteen years ago, and they were taken aback to find there was genuine demand. (They also do, or did, a white one for decorators.) These garments certainly do not meet Jock Scot's criteria for a 'genuine' kilt!
    The biggest drawback, I find, is that the fabric is very stiff, and swings open in front fairly readily. But maybe that was the point (cf Father Bill's observations about road crews in Ontario).

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