Who can wear a Kilt?

Selma, N.C. — a vermont teen claims he was kept away from a prom for homeschooled kids because he wore their belated grandfather's tartan kilt.

WTVD-TV in Durham reports 16-year-old David Leix wore the kilt for a "Praise Prom, " called a Christian alternative prom for homeschoolers but open to any rising students in grades nine through 12. As he appeared together with his date final Friday, volunteers declined to allow him in. A dress code listed on the prom's internet site claims jeans are appropriate, but jeans, short pants and baggy jeans are not.

Hillary Leix, of Johnston County, about 30 kilometers southeast of Raleigh, said various other parents on prom organized buying jeans for her child, and then he came back after missing couple of hours.

a telephone call searching for comment from prom host Traci Lanphere was not instantly returned on Monday.

The idea ended up being defeated in July at a meeting associated with the 220, 000-member National Letter Carriers' Association, but Dean Peterson states he's not quitting — and he has their supporters.

Peterson, a citizen of Lacey, Washington, spent , 800 to mail about 1, 000 letters and photographs of him wearing a model Postal Service kilt — or just what he means as an 'unbifurcated garment' — to union branches in almost every U.S. state, Guam and Puerto Rico.

"Unbifurcated Garments are far more comfortable and ideal to male structure than pants or short pants since they don't confine the legs or cramp the male genitals the way that pants or shorts do, " he composed. "Please open up your hearts — and inseams — for an alternative in mail provider comfort

In April, Claudetteia prefer, a senior at Carroll high-school in Monroe, La., was banned from the woman prom for wanting to put on a tuxedo as opposed to a gown.

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Ms. admiration, whom the News-Star of Monroe defines as a high scholastic scholar within the school's high-achieving health magnet program, claims that she actually is homosexual and that the institution's requirement that all female pupils put on dresses on April 24 senior is a type of discrimination.

"I told my mother, 'They may be utilizing myself. They put myself throughout these honors and higher level positioning classes so I may take all of these tests and get great grades and better the institution, however when it's time in my situation to celebrate the fact that I've achieved the things I have to achieve and I also'm about to graduate, they do not would you like to let me get it done, the way in which i wish to, '" she informed the News-Star.