how many of you have told your coworkers?

**cessna152towser** · 1st September 06, 01:19 PM

No need to lead a double life. Nothing to be ashamed of in wearing a kilt. On the contrary its something to be proud of. I wear a kilt to work as often as I wear trousers. There are pictures of me wearing kilts on my website.

**Southern Breeze** · 1st September 06, 01:27 PM

I wear the kilt almost daily at work. All my co-workers know about it, no secrets or double life for me.

**NewKilt** · 4th September 06, 06:42 PM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

No need to lead a double life. Nothing to be ashamed of in wearing a kilt. On the contrary its something to be proud of. I wear a kilt to work as often as I wear trousers. There are pictures of me wearing kilts on my website.

Exactly. I no longer work because of my disabilities, but I sent pictures to people where I had worked. I also e-mailed them the article that our local paper (a circulation of 28,000) did about me wearing kilts. I got very positive feedback from everyone, including several of the women commenting that I had good looking legs

. Don't "hide" wear them with "pride."

Originally Posted by pbpersson

Thus far when I have told friends about this they were so shocked they didn't know what to say.

People generally just don't know how to handle this - you would think I was breaking the law or something the way they act.

I don't understand why you are getting this kind of reaction from everyone - it's not typical that everyone would react this way. However it's their problem, not yours.

Darrell

**StoneCold** · 4th September 06, 07:04 PM

I've shown up at work in everything from a bathrobe and flipflops (got home late at night from a Mariners game in Seattle and only had about three hours sleep) to mismatched Hawaiian shirt and shorts (which I sometimes blame on my wife and sometimes blame on getting dressed in the dark). The bottom line is nobody is terribly shocked about what I wear.

So the day came a couple of years ago when I got my first kilt. I was wondering about how it would go over but didn't lose sleep over it. The first comment I got was "Striha isn't Scottish, is it?" It's actually Slovakian, but I assured them that one need not be Scottish to wear a kilt. That said, my mom's side of the family has Scottish heritage and comes from a predominantly Scots-settled area of eastern Ontario. My own father about had an aneurysm when he first saw me wearing it. Now he just shakes his head and grins. My mom thinks it's great, as do my wife and kids.

I ended up wearing a kilt to our staff Christmas party that year. Our mayor just loved it! Getting his endorsement in front of a bunch of managers who might not be as wild about the idea rendered their thoughts less relevant.

Some of the guys bug me about it. Some of the guys tell me they wish they had the cajones to wear something like it. The ladies - almost universally - love it. All of which is really irrelevant. I do it because I like to do it and will continue to do it. If somebody doesn't like it, it matters not a whit to me.

**Rusty** · 4th September 06, 07:04 PM

I work in an office where women outnumber the men three to one. The ladies are far more receptive to the idea of my wearing a kilt and have only made positive comments. The only negative remarks have come from my boss, which we won't go into as they have already been mentioned on an earlier thread.

So, don't worry about what others think. If they're not paying your bills then they don't get to choose your wardrobe