Dresscode to fly: Lady asked to correct her outfit on Southwest

I personaly do agree that there should be a dress code on the airlines. It is a confined public place. Its bad enough going out in public to find ladies old enough to respect themselves dressed in next to nothing but its just rude and disturbing to find them sitting next to you for the next few hours. Though I do agree that somewhere they should have their policy listed. I have seen the outfit the lady on Southwest was wearing though and I wouldn't term that as revealing.

I saw that story. She was on the Today show a couple days ago in the exact outfit she wore that day. The skirt was short, there's no doubt about it, but she was flying from a hot climate into another hot climate and...for Pete's sake, she wasn't even showing any midriff. The skirt kind of disappeared when she sat down but short shorts would have, too. And by the look of things she knew how to sit like a lady and stand up like a lady and she carried herself like any attractive young lady would. Her behavior was far from s|utty, as was her outfit. It's like I said in another post, we, as Americans are a bunch of uptight prudes most of the time. I can only imagine that whoever gave her grief was either grappling with jealousy or else couldn't control his (or let's be frank here, HER) own urges and well, that's just too damned bad. If I recall, she said that on the return flight she was actually complimented on her looks and her outfit by the flight attendant. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks...

I have read the article in the papers and saw the pix too, showing what she exactly wore. I found nothing offensive or vulgar in that. Maybe the skirt length was just a bit short, but even we have worn such lengths in our teens and this I am talking about in India. No big issues and the sweater was perfectly OK too. Guess the world is turning topsy-turvy over the most trivial issues. With no offence meant, I have seen far far less on women in the western countries while we Asians are thought of as puritanical. But even here, we have got used to noodle-straps and bare waists and low-cut jeans that just seem to fall off! And another thing that crossed my mind was if you do have a dress code, either declare it in your brochures or promos or something or shut up. No point in suddenly harassing and embarrassing a lady like that. I could just feel her mortification and my heart went out to her. I also thought of the double standards in society…if a girl is wearing something that is thought of as vulgar, she must have grown up that way, she must be used to roaming around in such clothes. So if that did not offend family values (I mean families she came across daily) how can it suddenly offend similar people in an airline? Or do people suddenly become chaste as they go up? And yes, high-end restaurants and clubs do have a dress-code and they publicize it openly for the benefit of their patrons, theirs’ is not an out-of-the-blue reaction.

i heard that on the Today news. i agree with you that they should atleast have a standard dress code for flying. i am in a band and some of the bands i see fly as if they are still going to sing in the palne. well thats there style there is nothing i can do with that but atleast be aware of people who will be sitting with you. after all it is not your private palne. for Southwest they should have oriented their passengers upon booking this incident happen but they dont even have a dress code. they dont have a law about that so it is rude (really) to just correct the ladies outfit if they dont have any standard proseedure on the matter about dress code.

i think everywhere there should be a dress code. even walking down the street. its just proper to dress decently instead of walking down the road looking ready for customers for the evening. sometimes the "sexy" is taken too far it actually becomes offensive. but then again, there are people who loves looking at those so its just personal preference to what we want to think of them.

Honestly...I would think that above and beyond all else the airlines should be applauding her for her outfit!! I know, it sounds strange, but stop and think about it. She had no where in that outfit to hide any "contraband" or weapons or anything like that and after all of the 9/11 stuff on tv yesterday...well I think the airlines should look into implementing a dressocde based on what she was wearing! Really - there would be almost no way to sneak anything on a plane dressed like that, and it would make the security checkpoints move much faster and she was entirely covered as far as all of her "no no " places go. So why are they complaining? I realize this may sound funny, like I am trying to be humorous, but I honestly am not. I personally try not to wear too many clothes or layers when I fly, being a hefty girl makes it hard to dress like that woman and look good, but still, if people wore less things would move so very much faster at the airports!! It may just be me, but I don't see why no one else is learning from this in that sense of things - no one looks on the bright side of an issue such as this. I don't doubt she will sue, but I do hope that someone finds a way to learn from this.

I'll have to read the story but I hope she takes it up with a lawyer or Human Rights Commission. Its scary, and makes me wonder what the world is coming to. I'm wondering if George Orwell had it right - just the wrong year. Will all our basic rights disapear. I agree that their should be some kind of dress code. Although I'll admit to taking my shoes off at my seat!!!

Frankly what give them the right to tell her what she can and can not wear. She's a grown a$$ woman not some little child. If she wants to walk around and a pair of booty shorts and a tube top thats her right. I think if she really wanted she could sue the hell out of that airline for being discrimintory toward her and the way she dresses.

I guess I won't ever have to worry about that.But she must have really been hanging out if someone had to say something to her.

I once traveled from melbourne to europe and this lady got on the plane dressed in a long skirt (not skirt but the material that you tie around you like a skarf gee I forgot what is called) and a jacket like top and she took it off (traveling with malaisan air line) and she had a bikini top. she had more things out than in and a lady just comented in a nacest posible way that it was a wrong thing to be wearing and to everyones suprise the bikini wearing lady said that she was sorry but she was running late for the flight and that she would change as soon as the plane was in the air and apoligesed to everyone. and yes she did change into more travel and family friendly clothes.