I personally haven't too much, I don't care what others think, but my dad has.

My dad works at UCDavis CA and a few years back he work his kilt on National Tartan Day (either the first or the second Tartan Day), which also happened to coincide with the university's "Diversity Week". He had a talk and wore his kilt the first half of the day at the talk. After the talk, back at the office, his boss asked him to change, saying it wasn't in the dress code. Well, they normally wear jeans and tshirts in the office. There were some articles in the local paper, and one in the Washington Post. The only thing that came of it was they asked my dad to write new dress code policy, he got tons of emails supporting him, and Sean Connery called him, because I guess through email chains people heard about it all over.

Yay workplace acceptance!

At the art college where I work I've often taught in my kilts. Everyone seems okay with it. Then again, it is art college, which everyone knows isn't a real school.

;-)

Hey all,
Yeah I've had the same feelings. I work at Warner Bros in Burbank CA, in a "creative" position. I'm heavily tattooed and have never hidden it. I wear tee shirts and shorts as well as flip flops to work but I still haven't had the nerve to deal with the reactions of wearing one of my kilts.
I find that I really don't care WHAT people say but I don't want to listen to their narrow minded comments. I would guess that after the second or third times the idiots would shut up but I'm just not ready for it...

You were actually told they were going to revise the dress code so you COULD wear your kilt?? Damn. I'm jealous.
I work for a transportation management company here in Portland, Oregon, and last year when I asked my mgr about wearing my kilt, she had seen me in it a a co-worker's wedding, she told me to ask HR about it.
Well when they finally contacted me back I was asked: Is it a cultural thing? my answer was..not really..then I was asked: is it a religious thing, to which my answer was no.
I was then told that "at this time they are going to have so say no you can't wear it, but ask again next year".
Why should I bother next year when you told me this year. I did however notice that there is still no stipulation in our dress code about NOT wearing kilts.
Though now I suppose I COULD tell them it's a cultural thing as I have been told my paternal grandfather's family came from a line of blacksmiths in northern Scotland.

I wore mine to class about a month, month and a half ago. It was quite a hit :)

I showed up to work last week wearing a kilt. The guys I work with didn't bat an eye, being game developers they're pretty hip. However the rest of the people that work in the same building we do are all military types as we are housed in a federal building. I actually expected more of a response than I got from them; a few odd glances here and there but that's about it.

I was a little nervous about my clients ( I'm a Psychology Resident) having difficulty with my kilts - but they've seemed to relish them. I overheard a client on his cell phone after a session say, "Dude - My new shrink wears a kilt, he's much better than my old therapist!" No problems with my boss or my clinical supervisor about me wearing my kilt s at all.

I haven't thought about wearing my UK to work - but now that I "own" the place, and the word from the "owners" above is "use your best judgment", I may just have to on a casual day, to test the waters.

First I gotta get the pink out of it (it was washed with the wrong things), in time for tomorrow's highland festival...

Way to get them *included* in the dress code!

I work a call center for Anthem Health Care. I figured I'd ask my boss first, since he's a pretty easy going guy anyway, if I could wear my kilt on Friday, since it's kind of Casual Friday anyway. He said, since my company was so concentrated on diversity, he didn't see any reason I couldn't wear it every day if I wanted to. I mostly just wear it on Fridays, but I have gotten a few others in my office that have kilts too to start wearing them in the summer. I get the good natured gruff from my close coworkers, all in jest, and the rare double take from some of the older ladies when they pass, but mostly most people don't react, or don't care.

>: )