Community | August 07, 2008 | 5 comments

Kilts for male US Postal Service workers?

source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-08-06-kilt-uniform_N.htm

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Dean Peterson, a 6-foot-tall, 250-pound mail carrier, is working on a campaign to add kilts as a uniform option for men working for the U.S. Postal Service .

Even though the proposition was defeated in July, Peterson is not giving up: he spent $1,800 to mail about 1,000 letters and photographs of him wearing a prototype Postal Service kilt to union branches across the US.

"Unbifurcated Garments are far more comfortable and suitable to male anatomy than trousers or shorts because they don't confine the legs or cramp the male genitals the way that trousers or shorts do," he wrote. "Please open your hearts — and inseams — for an option in mail carrier comfort!"

Peterson has never considered himself an activist. He has Finnish and Norwegian ancestry but not Scottish. He began wearing kilts a couple years ago when his wife brought one back from a trip to Scotland; now he does not leave the house in anything but a kilt.

Even though the union's executive committee recommended disapproval, saying there was not enough demand for kilts to be worth the bother of the resolution, Peterson has many co-workers who expressed their support after his resolution was voted down.

Do you think mail carriers, and perhaps even men in general, should be allowed to wear kilts as part of their uniform? Would you mind if a man delivered your male in a kilt and if so, why?
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5 comments // Kilts for male US Postal Service workers?

  • Adumbration
  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • I love the idea of a manskirt and strongly sympathize with this gentleman. Postmen already carry a man-purse full of letters and such, so what is the difference?

      I think that it is clearly sexism at the very least. If they said mailwomen cannot wear pants, then that would clearly be sexism. Why is it not revearsed.

      The most discriminated against group of minorities in america = White Men

    • 3 years ago
  • Egnatius212
  • cheyroze
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      cheyroze  

    • Of course this mail carrier is from Seattle, the Utilikilts are made there. I don't see why he can't wear whatever he wants as long as its not "too" revealing.

    • 3 years ago
  • EddieStarr
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      EddieStarr  

    • I support the USPS having the option to wear whatever they would like. Though, I am not seeing any evidence that these Kilts are made up of different tartan setts. Maybe USPS Kilts are standardized to be grey, but then what is the point? To represent Clan Postal?

    • 3 years ago
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