Kilted at Work

[Jimmy]

Although I have worn the kilt since I was a boy, I have never wore a kilt at work until last Friday when we had an unusually wear what you want day. Now wearing a kilt has never bothered me, I love wearing it and wear it at every possible oportunity but wearing it a work was an ordeal, I just could not be bothered with all the attention I received, nothing derogatory, all positve comments, but sometimes you want to get on with your life without having to interupt what you are doing to thank people for their compliments.
Am I so used to wearing the kilt that I am getting immune to compliments from both sexes. Can other working kilt wearers give me the benefit of their experience?

[cessna152towser]

I usually wear a black kilt with black Argyle jacket as a business suit when I work part-time as a lawyer. Previously when I was manager of the local town hall here I would wear the black kilt one or two days per week to the office and trousers on the other days. Everybody has got used to seeing me working in a kilt and it is very rare for anyone to comment. Last season I went kilted to my voluntary duties at the airport but this season I have been issued with a new uniform which includes black trousers which I feel is very professional looking and which I will be proud to wear although I have been given the option of wearing my black kilt if I should choose to do so.

[Makeitstop]

I don't wear a kilt to work, as I don't have a job at the moment, but I can certainly understand how you feel. There are times when I just don't feel like answering questions and dealing with the attention.

Since you work with these people, I would think that it would not be such a big deal any more if this becomes a regular occurrence. The first time it's new and different, the twelfth time it's just another friday.

[Nick the DSM]

well, when i wear it to school i get comments both postive and those that annoy me. i tend to wear the wallace instead of my all black, to prove that i wear kilts and not skirts.

[Riverkilt]

During my couple year run of being kilted every day at work after a while coworkers got used to it and the only comments I received were when I wore a new kilt to work. And then only a few would remark...sometimes no one would say anything and I'd be a bit miffed that no one noticed...

It'll pass.

Ron

[Jack Daw]

I work for a very conservative-minded bank, so the kilt is not an option for daily or even casual-Friday wear. Yet, there were 2 times at which I was asked to pipe in the kilt in conjunction with some special occasions at work. My boss' name is Smith and he has convinced himself of a Scottish heritage because of the economist, Adam Smith. So, I count myself lucky for this.

[McMurdo]

I wear a kilt everyday to work or not and have for over a year now, I have found at work that after a while, as I work with the same group of people, there are less and less comments unless it is a new kilt or perhaps a new sporran nobody notices and nobody comments. To me it is the way it should be, I mean I do not find it necessary to comment on my co-workers outfits everyday.

[ForresterModern]

Seems like the consensus is:

How do you get over it? Wear it more often so folks can get used to seeing you in it and then it becomes no big deal.

[ardchoille]

Seems like the consensus is:

How do you get over it? Wear it more often so folks can get used to seeing you in it and then it becomes no big deal.

Exactly. I have worn a kilt for years and most of the folks I now know haven't ever seen me in anything else. Once, after a rather muddy game of rugby, my kilt was in need of a wash. I wore sweat pants (the only thing I had left) while my kilt was drying. My friends dropped by to invite me to lunch and there were wide-eyed at the sight of me in pants.. one even made the comment that she hoped my kilt dried quickly.

[Mael Coluim]

I've worn one of my kilts to work on Fridays as my take off on casual Fridays for the last 6 months. I agree with the other posts there tends to be less comments, other than what tartan is that? Or how many kilts do you have?