I'm a buyer for a municipal government. Generally, I think I may be looked at with a jaundiced eye if I was in a typical office environment while wearing a kilt. However, because so much of our buying is for outside operations, I'm not at a city hall. The dress code tends to be much less formal. Having said that...

Until about two years ago, wearing even shorts to work was not permitted. I did so anyways to make a point when indoor temperatures were kept in the low eighties even in the winter. I had meat falling off the bone. I got a talking to but made my point and the thermostat was turned down.

I did sport my only kilt (at that time) to the company Christmas party several years ago. It got nothing but positive responses. When the shorts policy came into effect, I interpreted it to mean that I could wear a kilt if I so chose. So I did. And got virtually nothing but positive responses to it as well, with a few exceptions, all of which were tongue in cheek joking. I'm sort of the company eccentric the way I dress anyways (shorts all winter long, a closet full of Hawaiian shirts, etc.) so no one is really too shocked to see what I wear.