My Turn To Deal With A Dress Code

[mbhandy]

Hey Bill,

I get all my tartan boxers at WalMart...come in a three pack...some seem to even be authentic tartans. Never saw the need for high priced boxers...just want them light and loose and thought the tartan was cool in case of accidental exposure.

Ron

Ron,

I keep looking at our WallyWorld and they never have the plaid in my size. I look generally about twice a week have not been lucky and I have been looking since last summer.
Well at least your situation worked out for the best. I have a felling she will not work up a dress code because it just might turn out to be to much work and she most likely has enought things to do being new and all.

MrBill

[LK-13]

better late than never;
here's the pictures of Kilts at West Point Military Academy.
This was the Army vs. VMI game. I am back left.



This was also Army VMI game.


the fellow in the close up is Joel Harris, son of Jon Harris the owner of the best Scenario Paintball Field in the USA. Located in Harwood Texas.
www.tacticalpaintball.com

[Riverkilt]

That West Point tartan has a sharp look to it. I have it in the L.L. Bean shirt. It goes well with a black Utilikilt.

My plan B - if I was prohibited from wearing kilts to work - was to at least endeavor to always wear tartan shirts to work and expand my wardrobe of tartan shirts.

Ron

[Tattoo Bradley]

That West Point tartan has a sharp look to it. I have it in the L.L. Bean shirt. It goes well with a black Utilikilt.

My plan B - if I was prohibited from wearing kilts to work - was to at least endeavor to always wear tartan shirts to work and expand my wardrobe of tartan shirts.

Ron

I noticed they have that shirt in the "USAF" tartan. Been eyeballin' that one.

[Frank]

I 'm sure I'm not alone in finding it preposterous that a female employee feels she has the moral right to tell an adult man what he may or may not wear to work. Even more shocking that this takes place in 'the land of the free'.

Ask yourself just what kind of litigation would ensue if a male manager in corporate U.S.A. decided unilaterally, to impose his personal clothing preferences and demand that all female employees turned up for work wearing skirts/dresses or face termination. Can you imagine the explosion of outrage that would ensue from the U.S. feminist/anti male lobby ?

Notwithstanding the need for prescribed clothing when undertaking certain types of work, the concept of the kilt supposedly being the cause of 'disruption' whilst being an entirely bogus and dubious argument in any case should never be accepted unchallenged. If a coworker gets himself/herself in a lather over the male form being dressed in a kilt - it's they who have the problems - and I would suggest fairly deep rooted problems. In any case, I can smell the whiff of personal issues combined with power abuse emanating from Riverkilt's unpleasant and laughably inappropriately titled 'manager'.

Thankfully, here in the U.K., there are several precendents in employment law which pretty much outlaw the kind of control freakery suffered by Riverkilt.

I loved the earlier suggestion that Riverkilt should suggest a ban on all
kilts, skirts etc. being worn by all employees.

Memo all of the staff on that one, step back a few paces and wait for the indignant howls of outrage from the gals.


Sadly, even in 2007, it seems the moral of the tale is that some are more equal then others....

[CelticRanger66]

Good for you RK! Glad that your common sense approach worked. I also recently worked out that I can wear a kilt with my dress mess Jacket to my unit's dining in this June. Just got the memo from the First Flag Officer in my chain of command that it is ok to do so. CR66

[Riverkilt]

Congrats Herman, that's no small deal.

Imagine it may take years, like it did the ladies, to get kilts commonly accepted as part of dress codes. But we are gonna persevere and win out, just as the ladies did.

Ron