Quote Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende View Post
There was also this recent survey and discussion on the length of a tie with kilt.

Regards,
Rex.
Fantastic! That thread helped a lot.

Consider this...
Are there other people who wear heritage clothing to work, religious ethnicity clothing ... if you have Scots heritage, how is it any different, and therefore why should you have to ask or prove anything. I think the more important question/s should be asked in a setting like this forum -- what would be the correct combination of kilt-clothing to meet office standard.
I work for a construction company. In Texas. So it's a bit of a "good ol' boy's club". We don't have much in the way of ethnic diversity; at least, not amongst the office staff. The field hands are another matter entirely. So the usual dress in the office is pretty bland. The only "ethnic" attire that people wear is cowboy boots.

I've been casually mentioning the kilt to some others in the office to gauge response, and so far it's been positive. But being a manager of a department, I have to be real careful to maintain professionalism. It's not so much a matter of "can I get away with it without being fired?" I'm not worried about that at all. It's mainly that I don't want it to be a career damaging thing, where my boss would hesitate to promote me even further for fear that I'm "weird" or some such bias. Nor would I want the employees who report to me to be snickering behind my back. And worst of all, our job superintendents who come into the office from construction jobsites would likely give me a lot of ribbing about it. At first, anyway.

So I really have to build up to it, I think. Let everyone see pictures of me and generally wrap their mind around it before showing up to work in a kilt.