how many of you have told your coworkers?

[davedove]

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

You're making this sound like it's some kind of venerial disease.

Blu is right. As we've been telling you repeatedly, RELAX! It's only a piece of clothing. You're just like most of us were in the early days of kilting (although you do seem to worry about it a lot! )

I don't wear my kilt to work often, but I don't have any problems when I do. The worst I get is some folks just can't seem to wrap their minds around it. They just can't grasp WHY anyone would wear it to work.

[Ugly Bear]

I have not told any co-workers, though about a dozen have run into me kilted outside of work.

Some have run into me in my local supermarket. A couple pretended not to notice. One guy noticed, and has not made eye contact with me since (and that was over two years ago) (what a jackass). Another was a woman who likes to wear high skirts; she sort of giggled as I said hi and walked past.

One saw me in the crowd at a parade. He talked to me about it the following Monday, saying, "So, I saw you out in a ... kilt, right?" Yeah, I said. That was the sum of that.

The whole IT department saw me pallbearing at a funeral. A couple initial cracks about the "outfit," and that was that.

I was out touring the wine country on a beautiful October day, and went to the restroom. I almost literally ran into a coworker as he was stepping out. We chatted about wine for a minute or two, but we were so close, and his eye contact so consistent, and I was into the restroom so quickly, that I don't even know if he noticed I was kilted. (The folks from the wine trail remember me for being kilted, and express disappointment when I'm not.)

Do these chance encounters amount to anything? Do they chat about it amongst themselves, comparing notes? If they have, I haven't heard about it. Moral of the story: they'll handle kilt-wearing as easily as they'll handle any other quirk of yours or of any other co-worker.

[Randy]

Blu is right. As we've been telling you repeatedly, RELAX! It's only a piece of clothing. ....

I really do not care what my fellow employees think about what I do in my off time. But many know I have differnet kilts and have been seen about town and country wearing kilts.

Uniformed at work so can not wear kilts.

[bubba]

The fact of the matter is folks will think about your kilts as you do. If you go through the day and really don't act any different than you would in pants nobody else will think much about it after the initial surprise. You get the attention you draw.

[macgreggor]

Just throwing thoughts from the cheap seats here.

I have never felt the compulsion to tell anyone I work with about my wardrobe or outlook changes. If I know them socially, they are not JUST my co-workers. Since I work well and follow the dress code, what I chose to do/wear/think about cannot affect my co-workers on a daily basis.

I am already the ODD one around town so one more thing is not going to sink my social life. I do get the occasional strange look but I also have a lot of folks start fun conversations with me. If you have ever lived in the rural mid-west, you know how unusual it is for strangers to start friendly conversations!

I am starting to ramble....need coffee....:mrgreen:

macG

[pbpersson]

I am already the ODD one around town so one more thing is not going to sink my social life.

People do say that I am strange. Everyone I know, even people who I have only known for a few months, say that I am one of the strangest people they have ever known.

I just can't figure it out.....to me I seem perfectly normal.

[NewKilt]

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."

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]

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]

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

[Mr. Kilt]

When I started training for my job last year, we were asked to stand up, introduce ourselves, and say a little bit about us. So, on the very first day of training everyone in my class of 12 found out about my kilts. They all thought it was cool, as did the trainers.

Fast forward a month to the end of training...
The day before we "graduated" the city held it's annual Transit employee appreciation party. A nice little shindig for 2500 of your closest friends. LOL I wasn't even officially a bus driver at that point but went to the party anyway. Wore my Bear Kilt. Got a GREAT response from everyone I met. Alot of the other drivers, both female AND male, think I should be allowed to wear a kilt on the job. Wishful thinking. The rest is history.