Kilt Acceptance at Work

[Sherry]

I think you (we) will win more converts, not with appeasement, but with gallantry such as Graham diplayed. You have to think of your goals & how best to achieve them. If your career goal means that you must wear a "corporate uniform," then so be it. We all have to balance what we want to do with what we need to do in some manner.

Sherry

[mudd]

Ron, you are dead right about comfort in sitting, I would say especially so in a vehicle. I do a fair bit of driving and find kilt really nice to wear.

How do you get settled in the car without messing up the pleats for the rest of the day? I’m having’ a hard enough time keeping them neat just sitting in a chair for that matter. My wife is wondering why I stand around so much when I wear a kilt.
I’ve been thinking of wearing a kilt or two on a drive to California coming up soon. I dread the idea of what my back end will look like after several hours driving. :eek:

[Nick]

I'm allowed to wear kilts to work, but my boss gives me greif about it almost every time (not full time yet). She hasn't actually done anything about it, and I know she won't. I work in the back at a university bookstore, so there's no uniform or dress code, really. I can take the verbal abuse. I wish I had that kind of acceptance, though.

[GlassMan]

That's part of the joys of being my own boss. Not only is there no one around to give me a grief about wearing a kilt. But since we're a small business I've declared the kilt our company uniform (those previously employed grandfathered as being allowed to wear their choice of trousers or kilts). But the next new hire will be told right off that the kilt is the uniform. Now I just have to figure out how to finance the clothing allowance to allow new hires to buy something better than an eBay cheapie.

[davedove]

I don't get any grief when I decide to wear the kilt at work. The worst I seem to get is people giving me the "Why would he want to wear THAT?" look.

The director of our organization walked into the men's room the other day while I was standing at the urinal and did a double take. He joked that he thought he'd walked into the wrong restroom when he saw the "skirt".

[Riverkilt]

Hey Mudd,

Its not so bad...I sit most of the day. Just take a little time to do the sweep when you sit down. Just drove five hours in a Utilikilt Workmans (with underkilt dealie for seated comfort) and the UK didn't wrinkle too badly...course its broken in for a year.

Hand sewn tanks don't seem to wrinkle. Have sat on my kilts from Kathy's Kilts for hours while driving without a wrinkle.

Best of all, leather kilts are unwrinkleable.

If I'm making a long drive I take the time to make sure my kilt is arranged the way I want it before I start driving. Never a problem.

Still don't understand why long haul truckers aren't flocking to kilts for driving comfort.

Ron