I read the article, and personally have no problem with what the young woman was wearing. Revealing, yes. Obscene, no. And the outfit is fashionable and looks good on her.
I am all the more surprised that she was appearently stopped boarding a Southwest flight at SAN. San Diego isn't middle-America. Southwest is the airline whose flight attendents used to wear hot-pants and proudly advertize, "We sell love." (I am not making this up.)
I would like to see airlines impose a fashion code, but not for what she was wearing. More than once I witnessed sweaty, fat, hairy men in wife-beaters leave their foul manly residue on a seat for the next passenger. Yuck! Southwest Airlines, I'm talking to you!
Yeah, the outfit is revealing but not in poor taste. And she certainly pulls it off well (I say this as a straight woman, too).
Interestingly, one of the few Southwest flights I ever took was faced with this issue. IIRC, it was Chicago to San Diego, and the woman in question was wearing a very, very small tube top and a very short skirt. The distance between the bottom of the tube top and the top of her skirt was quite enormous, and her entire (not small) stomach was hanging out. It was definitely inappropriate and I could see why the SWA agents said something to her (I'm assuming a passenger complained, too).
She put up enough of a scene about not deplaning, and so they finally compromised by having her wrap a blanket around her midriff. So compared to her, the woman in the article is positively conservatively dressed and I think the agent was over the line!
the woman in the article is positively conservatively dressed and I think the agent was over the line!
Although to be somewhat fair to SWA, my guess is that while she was wearing the same clothes as in the picture, she wasn't wearing them the same way. I highly doubt SWA would have had a problem with the way she was dressed in the picture. But my guess (and obviously I'm only guessing here............no firsthand knowledge) is that the green sweater was NOT on......maybe slung over her shoulder, the tank-top was MUCH lower so her........um............Hooters (, sorry couldn't refrain myself on that one) were halfway hanging out, and her skirt was probably hiked WAAAAAY up so that people could see what was underneath. That's just my guess, based partially on the fact that her own mother admits that yes, she dresses provacatively Not that I'd have a problem with that personally , but I could see how others would.
When WN had the seats that faced towards the rear of the plane there were some college girls seated there (next to me) with skirts that were entirely too short (LBB-DAL). They commented during the flight that they should not have sat there...
She's an attractive women dressed sexily but nothing really over the top at all. Of course, I saw Delta make a women wearing one of those nightgown tops (you see them often enough now) put a tshirt on.. so I guess it is possible.
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Showing some bare skin within reasonable limits, as this young woman tried to do, is not offensive--however, taking off your flip-flops and sitting with your bare feet right across the aisle from me during the entire flight, as happened to me earlier this summer, is disgusting, IMHO, and probably unsafe.
Compared to what I - and the rest of the passengers - saw board an AA flight from BWI to DFW one evening, the outfit this girl was wearing looks like Mother Theresa.
Well, she (and her mom) will get the allotted 15 minutes of fame, no doubt already trying to get on "Good Morning America" to discuss the emotional abuse they have suffered.
Maybe her tips at Hooter's will be bigger now that she has achieved celebrity status.
It was definitely inappropriate and I could see why the SWA agents said something to her (I'm assuming a passenger complained, too). 
