how many of you have told your coworkers?

[Robin]

I also just showed up...

My choise to wear kilts....like it? great!, don't like it? also fine...not my problem.
Wearing a kilt is not something secret, obscure or kinky, it's the garment of my choise and nothing to be ashamed of (the thought alone! )

[pbpersson]

Ouch..that is possibly the worst decision I've ever heard! I would never want to be stuck right in the middle of my clients!

Well....from the point of view of customer support it might make sense but I don't think you could get much work done. :confused:

Anyway, people in Phoenix might think differently about Utilikilts. Maybe they just are not that popular here.

I'm trying to change that a little at a time, I'm doing four kilt walks this weekend.

[Chris Webb]

For many of us who live in Conservative areas it really is like 'coming out' when we first let our peers and family know we wear kilts. Frankly not everyone in a conservative area is going to like them, the 'men are supposed to wear pants' mentality can be very strong. My Step-dad hates my kilts and I've been kilted full time for over 3 years. My Rich Uncle believes whole heartedly that I need to give up my kilts, doesn't matter that I'm getting all the business I can handle while kilted, he still thinks I'm losing business over it.

My experience is that the only way to wear a kilt successfully and consistently is to wear it with out apology or explanation. There is no need to tell anyone, no, you just wear your kilts any time you want to. If you are wearing it with confidence, with out apology so to speak, then it is likely that you'll get nothing but positive comments to your face and only a few negative comments behind your back. Try your best to disregard those negative comments, they are largely from closed minded people who will never be satisfied with your life until it is just like theirs.

In my 4 C's of Kilting you can read about Courage in regards to kilting. The 4' C's of Kilting are both here at Xmarks and also at Kiltmens. Be EN-COURAGED, brother, try not to let closed minded people steal your joy and by all means don't let the worry over someone you know seeing you keep you from enjoying your kilts. I'll bet you look great in your Utilikilts, shoot, you can't look like anything but a Man's Man in one of those things!

Kilt On.

Chris Webb

[Big Paul]

Yep, told mine... Well that was when I was working..:rolleyes:

Most had a chuckle out of it but once I showed them my wedding pictures, they quieted down.

[Aggie]

I told em I was going to wear a kilt to the office and the next day I did. They all know about the kilts.

[Roan Carter]

I'll tell you my experience ...

I walked into work the other day in my kilt. (I was carrying my work clothes in my arms and changed before I clocked in.) I work in an arcade and the people I work with are like 20-27. The guy who trained me, the assistant manager, saw me and asked why I was wearing a kilt. I just explained that kilts are all I wear. He was surprisingly accepting of that. I bumped into him at the movies the other day and we talked briefly. It would seem that the kilt had no real effect on how he treats me.

I wear a tartan Black Stewart kilt though. With more modern Utilikilts, you could just call it what it is and say they're the rage in Seattle (isn't that where they're from?). Modern heritage, really. Kinda like those jet black kilts people use in weddings. I guess it's a convenient way to avoid the contraversy of the warring clans represented by tartans.

My advice is not to let anyone make you feel like less for what you do, no matter their tone or authority.

[Roan Carter]

For many of us who live in Conservative areas it really is like 'coming out' when we first let our peers and family know we wear kilts.
...
My experience is that the only way to wear a kilt successfully and consistently is to wear it with out apology or explanation. There is no need to tell anyone, no, you just wear your kilts any time you want to.

AMEN~!

[Frank McGrath]

I showed up at the company holiday party in my kilt. I thought it would be a big deal until another co worker showed up in a kilt, too. But the company pres said if I would wear it nest year, so would he. So, I guess it was accepted. Every now and then, some one will make a remark about me being kilted. All are positive. It's not a big deal to me who knows and who doesn't. It's how i feel wearing it. And that's a good thing.

[Tattoo Bradley]

Most of my coworkers (the few I converse with) know that I wear kilts. My three lab techs know I wear a kilt. They think it's cool and that I've got a big set for doing so. It's really not a big deal to me. The first couple of times out was weird. But, then change always is.

A couple of weeks ago our supply clerk saw me in Wally World. I stopped and talked to him. His eyes kept darting from me to my kilt and back again. But, he never said a WORD. I guess he didn't know I wore a kilt regularly. I would love to wear my kilts to work, but due to OSHA stuff I can't. Oh well, I'd hate to get something on them here anyway...

[Rex_Tremende]

I have been seen in a kilt by a coworker, mentioned it in front of another one lunch hour when talking to someone in a kilt on the sidewalk in front of Nicholson's tavern, and just the other day, explained it to another manager who works nearby when he asked, "Say, was that I kilt I saw slung over your shoulder the other day?"

I had taken my kilt to the tailor to have the buckles and inside strap moved. My tailor is a block from my office, so I brought the kilt in one morning, hung it on the coat peg for all to see (no one did, as far as I know), carried it out during lunch one day, picked it up again at lunch a week later, and carried it out at the end of the day. My red-haired colleague says he's into Celtic music and such, so his antennae were up.

I have been debating whether I will ever wear one for office outings out of hours, like the cookout my boss's boss is hosting this weekend, or to the baseball game later this month. Since I cannot attend either, it is, for the moment a moot issue. There is a lot of testosterone in my work group (nine guys and one poor female secretary to look out for all of us), so I'm just not sure it's the thing I want to be known for - as "the guy in the skirt." Though what is one more thing?

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati