Kilts in the office

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Archangel and yoippari,

Thanks for great advice! We don't have casual Fridays (just business casual all the time), but I had forgotten that we actually have the end of our United Way campaign this Friday and it will actually be a casual Friday! I think that will be a perfect time to come in for the first time in a kilt. I had worried on this, or maybe another, thread that it might send a message that the kilt is a casual article of clothing, but I don't think that anybody seeing me in the SW Nightstalker, white oxford shirt, black hose, dress shoes, and sporran will think that I am being casual. I am boing to send anote to HR, but I am not going to worry about the response for Friday's test.

Yoippari has actually encouraged me even more. He is tackling the kilt wearing as a new employee! While I have only been here for 4 months, I have a proven track record and have been out after hours with some of my peers.

Now, assuming that everything goes well, I will have a strong incentive to buy more kilts (not that I really need to have an incentive!)! I currently only have the SW and a SK. The gun metal gray SK might do for the infrequent casual days, but I regard it as a piece of sports clothing, and with the yellow SK badge, it looks a little casual. I had thought about removing the badge, which would dress it up a bit and then I might consider wearing it as one would a pair of khakis.

Thanks for all the advice and support.

RJI

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

I'd still like to start a company where the dress code, officially, was tartan kilts for men, kilted skirts for ladies.

Hey, you know it would get press!

John, if you decide to do so, I know a recent convert that would love to head up your IT department! I'll even move to OH! Just moved to Chicago from Tampa, so the weather in the winter can't be any worse!

RJI

[Prester John]

Hey

I'm not kidding. I'm working on it, and I would need an IT guy.

Hmmmm it's just crazy enough to work!

I'm in the planning stages. Probably, I'd need a webmaster actually.

Like I said, still planning - but moving forward!

[Southern Breeze]

Slightly off topic,but interesting-How close is this thread to the longest on record? :grin:

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Hey

I'm not kidding. I'm working on it, and I would need an IT guy.

Hmmmm it's just crazy enough to work!

I'm in the planning stages. Probably, I'd need a webmaster actually.

Like I said, still planning - but moving forward!

John,

Check your PM. Did you recently work for a large US financial institution that merged wih another large US financial institution because the CEO of one of the said institiutions is anxious (i.e. has a hard-on) to become the largest credit card issuer in the US?

RJI

[yoippari]

Slightly off topic,but interesting-How close is this thread to the longest on record?

We are on reply #76 now.
For this forum I think that "Attitudes To The Kilt" is the largest at 168.
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...searchid=44558

The largest I have ever seen, which I must note was only open from 10.02.04 to 10.11.04 (9 days and like ~30 minutes), is this one.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/se...earchid=441836
10,050 replies. It was closed to save the server.

[yoippari]

Personally I think that the more informal nature of where I would be working, and the fact that this is Oregon, will greatly work in my favor. From what I have seen there is no dress code, the shop is a steel structure with 3 van/trucks and a bunch of parts on shelves and the floor (the largest shelf in a building), and a very small single width manufactured building, and when I did a favor/temp job for the guy he had me borrow his pickup to haul some trash and black pipe from Western Oregon University to the shop. It took three trips and close to four hours while he was working at a house they were plumbing.

Once again, this is a son-in-law of an elder of my church and previous temporary employer where I helped him wire (he is an electrition) and dig out a small wine celler for his new home and helped him move the junk out of his old garage and basement.The son-in-law just wants to hire someone to run around and pickup parts while his guys are out working. If I were working at the local credit union I don't think I would bring up kilt wearing for a couple of months, or at least until I felt confident enough that I could jump through the hoops with out a hassle.

[Rigged]

any more than women in pants are crossdressing

Some women wearing pants ARE crossdressing. Some of them get VERY upset about men wearing kilts -- it screws with their whole "pants are a way of wearing masculinity" trip.

Some of them insist on wearing kilts -- because they're a masculine garment, even though they have a wide choice of skirts made for women.

To think that just 30 years ago women were having this same conversation about being able to wear pants to work. To think that we guys took so long to question why we were stuck wearing the bloody things.

I have to be in uniform when I work, but if I need to drop by the jobsite to do some paperwork or for a casual gathering, I go kilted. I didn't make any annoucements or ask permission.

So far, not a peep from anyone.

[Rigged]

As a senior employee, expected to set an example, wear what you'd like to see other kilted men wear to your place of business.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

As a senior employee, expected to set an example, wear what you'd like to see other kilted men wear to your place of business.

Rigged, good advice. And the whole women in pants thing is likely to come up at some point.

RJI