Ron, what a story! I've been away a few days and come back to all this!

A thought on dress code:

If you get an opportunity to be part of the process, it seems to me that as kilts are an "equivalent" of pants, that it is not only the pants but the way they are worn that is important. In the same way the kilt is worn in different ways for different occasions. On occasion chinos, on occasion dress pants (suit even), on occasion jeans. If you are going to a more formal meeting when dress chinos and a sports coat (tie) would be worn, then it would be inappropriate to wear a UK survival and t-shirt. A more formal tartan kilt and kilt jacket (tie) would be more appropriate. But, how you would write that into a formal code I am not sure. Perhaps some clever Xmarks member could write a "boiler-plate" code.