NOT kilted at work -- your thoughts, please?

[Riverkilt]

Ain't it a shame though?

At the core is the freedom of females to choose between a wide range of bifurcated or unbifurcated garments in the workplace while some weird convention denies males the same freedom of choice.

Why is it an issue?

Thank you to those men who are bit by bit, step by step, risking in the workplace and helping make kilts a legitimate choice for men in the workplace.

Ron

[Highland Logan]

Ain't it a shame though?

At the core is the freedom of females to choose between a wide range of bifurcated or unbifurcated garments in the workplace while some weird convention denies males the same freedom of choice.

Why is it an issue?

Thank you to those men who are bit by bit, step by step, risking in the workplace and helping make kilts a legitimate choice for men in the workplace.

Ron

Ron the kilt is the National Dress of Scotland, not some odd type of dress to create a backward Male Sexual Revolution on. Kilts are about Clan and Family, not freedom. It could be this imposed view which cause others to judge those who wear the kilt in a negative light.

Frank

[Riverkilt]

Unbifurcated garments are worn by millions, maybe billions, of men throughout the world. Kilts aside, 'tis a shame men don't have the same freedom of choice that women have when it comes to dress in the workplace.

And, really don't see that much difference between a wool pleated tartan skirt that a woman can wear to work any day of the week she chooses and a wool pleated tartan kilt - a type of skirt - that a man could wear.

Stand a woman in a wool tartan skirt next to a man in a wool tartan kilt - what's the difference?

Sorry, I don't buy the clan and family only thing. Look how many tartan non-kilt types of garments are being sold by menswear vendors.

No hassle to wear a tartan shirt to work. No hassle to wear a tartan tie to work. No hassle to wear tartan pants to work (speaking for myself), maybe even no hassle to wear a tartan sportcoat to work...what's the big deal with a well made tartan kilt?

Seems a power and control issue over a very tiny thing.

Your milage may vary

Ron

[Highland Logan]

Seems a power and control issue over a very tiny thing.

Ron, you seem to come off as one who needs control, and may not care much that others have some over you. That in a nut shell is life, and has been since the dawn of time. Someone else is always in control, and they call the shots. If it such a little thing, than maybe you should give up trying to change a corp. culture which will never except your idea of things. Someone who pays another gets to call the shots... !

Frank

[ChubRock]

And, really don't see that much difference between a wool pleated tartan skirt that a woman can wear to work any day of the week she chooses and a wool pleated tartan kilt - a type of skirt - that a man could wear.

Stand a woman in a wool tartan skirt next to a man in a wool tartan kilt - what's the difference?

Seems a power and control issue over a very tiny thing.

Your milage may vary

Ron

Here, here, now more topless female lifeguards.

[HarborSpringsPiper]

Ain't it a shame though?

At the core is the freedom of females to choose between a wide range of bifurcated or unbifurcated garments in the workplace while some weird convention denies males the same freedom of choice.

Why is it an issue?

Thank you to those men who are bit by bit, step by step, risking in the workplace and helping make kilts a legitimate choice for men in the workplace.

Ron

It is a shame. I used to think we had resolved most of these issues in the 1970s but clearly not. It seems in fact like there has been a backslide on many fronts.

I certainly support the notion that employers have certain rights and expectations when it comes to employee dress and this makes for an area that will always be somewhat murky. I suspect that the discomfort many people have with "different" is the basis of most of the problem, as others have already noted.

Wearing a kilt to work isn't something I see myself doing except for maybe a rather special occasion. It would be impractical for my primary setting, an Emergency Department. I tend to think it would be a distraction for patients in the other, which BTW is also a Community Mental Health organization (makes three of us with ties to CMH in this thread!).
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amendment: I do not mean to imply that I think it would be a distraction for anybody else's situation, just my own.