Are There ANY Laws Against Wearing A Kilt in the USA?

**Magnus Sporrano** · 21st March 05, 10:15 AM

The thing I've found about company dress codes, and this is my direct first-hand experience, is that to not trample on the rights of cross dressers they have to have a genderless policy. Once they have a genderless policy, they either need to allow skirts or not allow them, and then define metrics of what skirt length is acceptable. Anyplace that allows a skirt but does not want to allow a kilt would have to mess around with the skirt length rules and at that point they would upset a lot of ladies.

Then the thing that ties the knot is when you say "I'm celebrating cultural diversity".

If you work in a machine shop or a lab or somewhere with uniforms you might be out of luck. But for regular office jobs, you have a very good chance of successfully defending your right to work kilted.

**Riverkilt** · 21st March 05, 03:00 PM

That's a GREAT line Mangus, thank you.

I'm gonna use it a lot.

Cultural diversity is all the rage now in the counseling world.

Ron

**Atticus** · 21st March 05, 03:37 PM

Jimmy,

I live in Massachusetts. Please let me me know if I am breaking any laws when I go unrestricted (i.e. when my wife isn't checking).

Thanks!

**Alan H** · 25th March 05, 07:08 PM

I used to work in a biotech company, in the lab and I gotta say that I wouldn't wear a kilt in the lab, but I can't imagine the company making a RULE against it. Even that godawful excuse for a 'corporation".

**Declan Rowan** · 25th March 05, 09:36 PM

Alot of dress-codes that I have run across have their own way of dealing with the issue of skirts/kilts by simply requiring all employees to wear pants, the socially accepted genderless garments. (However I did get around this at one place I worked. We were allowed to dress up for Halloween, and I wore the kilt to work. And while i know it kinda plays into the kilts=costuming, I made sure I told everyone that 'no, this isnt just a costume, yes I wear kilts often, no, you cant look under it." so it wasnt toooo bad.

**Jimmy Carbomb** · 26th March 05, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by Atticus

Jimmy,

I live in Massachusetts. Please let me me know if I am breaking any laws when I go unrestricted (i.e. when my wife isn't checking).

Thanks!

I had him look into it further, and it was from 1916 in the Boston area. By the tone and inferrence, it had everything to do with quelling any problems that might exist between the Republicans and the Unionists that lived in the city.

**Riverkilt** · 26th March 05, 03:13 PM

Just had a great idea!

The way to enhance the kilt boom is to declare kilts illegal. They'd sell like hotcakes then!

Ron

**David in Maryland** · 26th March 05, 05:56 PM

Make kilts illegal??!!!?? They tried this back in 1745, the law was repealed sometime in the 1780's, I believe. They can take my kilt from me when they pry it from my cold dead waist.

**Riverkilt** · 26th March 05, 07:57 PM

But that's the point David. My making kilts illegal men would stand up and fight for them...many of them men who hadn't considered a kilt before. We'd wear them anyway...people want what they are told they can't have.

Ron

**Declan Rowan** · 26th March 05, 10:02 PM

lol hey, that worked for the Irish language for awhile. England outlawed it, everyone spoke it. Ireland made it a national language and taught it in schools, and everyone stopped learning it.

Just goes to show human beings love to do what they arent supposed to.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I just happend to see a rather large, red button that said "DO NOT PUSH" laying around here...