I sent an email to the NY times

**mbhandy** · 31st July 08, 06:58 PM

“We try to have a little bit of fun around here on a regular basis,” said Dave Newbold, the president of Richter7, the Salt Lake City ad agency in question, whose clients include Medtronic and the Chamber of Commerce of Park City, Utah, where wearing long pants outside of ski season is practically a violation of the law.

Total violation of the law.

At the Home Depot in Park City Quite a few Contractors wear Kilts.

Now to get the Park City Chamber to wear Kilts.

OK most of the employees are women.

It's the thought ------

MrBill

PS the guy on the left looks like a Who left over.

**KiltedSkeleton** · 31st July 08, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by georgeblack7

Who wears short shorts?

We wear...no wait that doesn't work.

**slohairt** · 31st July 08, 07:32 PM

Wow, that looks really, really terrible!

The first guy does faintly resemble Pee-Wee Herman/Paul Reuben. It not just the shorts that look bad. The shoes don't work, the jacket is too snug, and his posture is poor as well.

The second guy looks like he buckled a belt onto his boxer shorts and walked out the door, forgetting the rest of his suit!

The third? Well, it looks better but still not my bag, I guess.

**Standard** · 31st July 08, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Kilt

Is it just me, or does the guy on the left look a lot like Peewee Herman?

OMG that was my exact thought when I read the article earlier this evening. I too was wondering if the kilt would be mentioned in the article, and was disappointed when it wasn't.

**rollerboy_1979** · 31st July 08, 08:39 PM

OMG! These clowns have to be tongue-in-cheek examples. They can't possibly be serious! And some people raise an eyebrow when they see a kilt?! That's why you can't believe what you read in the newpaper!

RB

**Coinneach** · 31st July 08, 08:47 PM

I think these pictures belong on the "Pants-don'ts" thread.

**Barry** · 1st August 08, 07:17 AM

Well guys, I took the 3 dudes to my tailor's and kitted them out. They look a tad better, but I guess that they all could do with socks. The 1st laddie still looks scary. The 2nd guy really looks better in a skirt rather than a kilt (sorry chaps), but none of `em are a patch on any o youse!

Somehow shoes and no socks looks wrong.

**Bugbear** · 1st August 08, 07:17 AM

I can't enjoy the pictures, but read all the comments... Dressy slides would be much better than the shoes without socks I would think. If the shorts are around knee lingth and some what like slacks, paired with a short sleve button down shirt and tie... I think it would look quite good. Ehh, I don't think shoes without socks would work, but maybe scrunched down socks...

Do the whole outfit in corduroy with a jacket.

**Barry** · 1st August 08, 07:25 AM

If you`d like me to struggle and put socks on em too and kilt the black guy then I will - but not today - my eyes are shot!

**Galician** · 1st August 08, 07:34 AM

I'll just say that, to this New Yorker's eyes, the photos are not of "real" people, but of fashion models. As such, they are as liable to extreme in the outfit as any dress one sees in the news of the latest fashion show of a big designer.

Bottom line, these get-ups are OUT THERE, but intentionally so.