A Little Help Please. Kilts at Work Research

[Harold]

I wish I could but I work for the Belgian Railroads so we have to wear a uniform. Usual sexist presumptions apply of course, women being able to chose between pants and skirts, hats or kepies and men not.

Personally I think our uniform would look mightily sharp with a kilt and a nice kilt jacket.

this is what we wear:

[Clockwork John]

I work in Education. Specifically, I work with mild to moderately disabled special education students. I've only owned a kilt for about two months, but I've already worn it to work about half a dozen times. I've gotten a great response from my colleagues, and my boss only had one concern about me being kilted-- was I wearing it the traditional way. I assured him I would "dress appropriately for work,"and that was the end of it.

My students, on the other hand... in addition to being a bit slow on the uptake, they are horribly uncultured and ignorant. I had to explain what a kilt is, its origins, etc... I even had one kid leave the classroom and go to our on campus detention room because he "felt uncomfortable being in a classroom with a man in a skirt"... when he came back, we had a discussion about different cultures, and about heritage, and I think he's finally starting to get it...

All in all, it's been a good experience wearing my kilt to work.