Ron, I work for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, in the Superfund Program which oversees cleanup of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. In my current position I deal with personnel from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, And State Enviromental Organizations in Tennessee and South Carolina. I have not worn pants to work since before Christmas. I have been to technical meetings with folks from all these agencies in my kilt and have had nothing but positive comments from all of them, nor have I heard of anything negative coming in to my supervisor through the back door. Those whom I consider my friends in these agencies are the most likely to give me a hard time, but in good spirit.

Ususally we are all sitting at a conference table or in some format where attention can be focused on a presentation. After folks get over their initial goofiness about me actually wearing the kilt the response is positive and then gets for gotten in the work at hand.

This job does entail particpating in and presenting at public meetings where we discuss site issues. So far I have elected to not wear the kilt at these events because the focus should be on the information and not what the speaker is wearing.

That's the story so far