employers encouraging kilt wearing?

[MacWage]

So, kilts are skirts when they can be made to fit dress codes. Otherwise, calling a Kilt a skirt is a beating offence?

So a kilt is a a skirt ONLY when it has to be !

[pbpersson]

Comin' to Flag this weekend??
Ron

Wouldn't miss it for the world.

Not only do I get to wander around in my kilt all day in a low stress environment...but it's an opportunity for me to get USED to seeing men in kilts.

I am thinking how nice it would be to stay later in the day and walk the cool streets of Flagstaff at night. Here we don't have cool streets at night, you know.

[pbpersson]

So, kilts are skirts when they can be made to fit dress codes.

Yes, as it turns out the kilt is a very versatile garment. It can change its characteristics depending upon the circumstances.

As far as I am concerned, calling the kilt a skirt is sort of like calling a Lamborghini a car. I mean sure, you can drive around in a Lamborghini and you can haul groceries....but it is so much MORE!

Anyway, I thought I heard somewhere that a company had a "gender neutral" dress code and the final ruling from HR was that men wearing kilts would be too "distracting" in the workplace. I can't see it being any more distracting than some of the short skirts I see the women wearing....but whatever....

[Ruanaidh]

.... calling the kilt a skirt is sort of like calling a Lamborghini a car.

Hehehe. I got to remember that one.

[JayFilomena]

The program manager of Forest Ambulance Service in Richmond Virgina invited me to wear my kilt anytime I wanted. I wore it at an after hours meeting or training session or some such, and she loved it. I did wear it once, and did a few runs to some area hospitals and the reaction was great. I never did wear it again. I was concerned that a call would come in where I would have to take a very sick person into the hospital while doing some advanced procedure, and the kilt would have been to much of a distraction. But again, the decision to wear or not wear was mine. Manager actually encouraged me to ware it while working. I wonder what OSHA would say about a kilt on an Ambulance?

[macsim]

When I first posed the question of wearing a kilt to work at my new job I would say I was encouraged to wear it. I was surprised given the size of the company (Blue Cross Blue Shield) and thought I would surely be told it would be a distraction or something. I only wear it on "Casual Monday and Friday" so as not to push the envelope too much.

[Pour1Malt]

Hehehe. I got to remember that one.

ya hae tae bae careful though...

after 10 drams ya micht say " a Lamborgreeni is a kilt..."... then where will ya gae frae there?

[pbpersson]

ya hae tae bae careful though...

after 10 drams ya micht say " a Lamborgreeni is a kilt..."... then where will ya gae frae there?

[Raphael]

So, kilts are skirts when they can be made to fit dress codes. Otherwise, calling a Kilt a skirt is a beating offence?

So a kilt is a a skirt ONLY when it has to be !

That was my manager's rationale for allowing the male staff, me, to wear the kilt on Friday.

[Fearnest]

A much-delayed entry on this thread, but here goes:

I was getting a lot of heat from co-workers about not being casual enough on "casual Fridays," so I wore an olive mocker UK in one day. You'd have thought the world just ended! My boss saw me, I explained my rationale, and told him I wouldn't wear the kilt when we had a class in session (I work at a Federal Training Center).

He said "No, you HAVE to wear it when there are classes in session." And so, I've been happily kilted at work (on non-uniform days) ever since. And the responses have almost all been positive since that first day. As for the rest? Who cares?