Conforming for the office

[UmAnOnion]

I can personally testify to the comfort of wearing shorts to work as a former resident of that lovely Isle world renowned for its knee baring garb for men in the business world. And when the shorts were made of medium weight linen your comfort was extended tenfold.

Such comfort is vastly overshadowed by that of the kilt with its built in air-conditioning but I doubt that either would be welcomed with open arms in the offices of today.

My concession to the 90 degree plus heat wave NYC has been experiencing of late is to come into work wearing shorts and change into trousers [shudder] that I have left there on a previous day or have brought in with me. The A/C in my office is set on nuclear winter anyway so the additional protection is somewhat welcomed. If I am heading out for more than a few minutes I switch back - unless I am headed to see a client then I curse the fashion gods with every dirty word I know.


Hhhmmm... thinking back -it was wearing a kilt that got me the job in the first place .... Maybe I should give it a try on a 'casual; Friday' & see what the powers that be have to say.....

[Kilted KT]

I'll have to agree that wearing the kilt to work takes some balls in some situations. I've worm mine to work twice now, with no issues. The problem comes when you take into account the massive layoffs all throughout the company I work for, some of which are completely unexpected. While I've fought for them in the past, fighting over clothing at the expense of my son's medical insurance isn't in the cards today.

I raise my flask to all those who are able to challenge the 'status quo' of busines dress.

[Raphael]

My concession to the 90 degree plus heat wave NYC has been experiencing of late is to come into work wearing shorts and change into trousers [shudder] that I have left there on a previous day or have brought in with me. The A/C in my office is set on nuclear winter anyway so the additional protection is somewhat welcomed. If I am heading out for more than a few minutes I switch back - unless I am headed to see a client then I curse the fashion gods with every dirty word I know.

Instead of shorts, how about show up to work with your kilts on?

[turpin]

I work for the Federal government and my agency has a very permissive dress policy. Even so, going kilted would initially probably have to be on special days, such as National Tartan Day (who could argue?). I'll just have to see how folks especialy management) react. Good thing is, it's hard for them to fire me. Not that their displeasure can't be evidenced in other ways.

[Frank McGrath]

My company supplies us with uniforms that they expect us to wear. I agree with that policy. We have a lot of our techs that wear shorts and scruffy t-shirts. If I were in charge, they could go home and change. Image is a lot when you are the first and possibly only person the customer sees. In the span of a day, I have gone from an Ice Cream storage freezer (-40 degrees) to a plant that uses steam in their production facility. I carry a freezer suit with me all year round. But I still wont wear shorts on the job. When I go home, I can wear what I want.