I'm currently unemployed, which is why I have time to develop the X-Kilt, but I did IT support...light networking, lots of desktop support, and student computing lab management, for about ten years prior to that. My most recent gig was at Stanford University...about six years there.

I started wearing kilts to work in January 2005. I got one comment from my boss..."So. A kilt today." and the students wanted to know if it was a Scottish Holiday. The senior network admin asked me if that day was the anniversary of some great Scottish Victory. That's it.

After that, no comments at all really, except from two very pleasant Chinese programmers that simply could NOT wrap their minds around the word "kilt" no matter how many times I explained it to them. When I showed up in the bright red MacNicol that I sewed up myself, I had to walk around and point it out to people, before anybody said anything! I wore a kilt and the jacket I modified to the Dept. Christmas....errrr... Holiday Party and got several positive comments but not a negative word, except for once, at work.

That negative word was from the woman that ran the Faculty Assistance Lab. She made a couple of snide comments when I wore a casual kilt look to the office once, and then complained once to management that my wearing of a kilt was sexual harassment. Go figure on THAT one. She can wear black heels, painted-on denim pants and crop-tops that show her (admittedly very attractive) midriff, but I can't wear a kilt? Her case went nowhere and I wound up supervising her for about six months.