Wash. Letter Carrier Going Full Kilt Ahead
SEATTLE - A 6-foot-tall, 250-pound letter carrier is campaigning for the right to take off his pants. Dean Peterson wants the U.S. Postal Service to add kilts as a uniform option for men.
The idea was soundly defeated in July at a convention of his union, the 220,000-member National Letter Carriers' Association, so Peterson knows convincing management will be an uphill struggle, but at least he'll be comfortable in his kilt, or Male Unbifurcated Garment.
"In one word, it's comfort," he said.
With his build, Peterson said, his thighs fill slacks to capacity, causing chafing and scarring.
Peterson, 48, 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. (A spokeswoman for Britain's Royal Mail said kilts are not allowed as part of its letter carrier uniforms.)
Now Peterson wears them everywhere 鈥?to one son's football games, the other son's concerts, shopping and gardening.
"It's the difference between wearing jammies to bed and wearing your work clothes to bed," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_o鈥?/a>|||How about: Kilt idea gets kilt(killed) at convention. Use of some slang works every time.|||Have Kilt will travel to the ends of the world. Sounds good to me. But i wonder if he wears undies underneath. Call it the BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL if he happens to stoop over with his male errrrrr mail.|||letter carrier seeks to get dressed up for the job|||Is the U.S. Snubbing Scotland? ----Make an international incident out of it.
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