I don't know if quaint is the right word, honest maybe. :) I should have pre-prefaced my entire statement with the fact that I am one of the least fashionable travelers out there. My attire is generally my camouflage Abercrombie (though I'm probably the most un-Ambercrombie folks around) cargos accompanied by hoodie and whatever client swag I might be working for.

It is probably the hardest thing in world to have an opinion on FT and not be taken to task because of it even if it's sarcasm or jest.

Its a bus in the sky. Who cares what you wear, as long as you don't smell bad.

+13 :)

This a thousand times. As long as your "naughty bits" are covered and you've bathed recently I don't really care what you wear.

Well, I don't know about the rest of you but I prefer to save my designer wear for when I'm flying on my private jet. If I must fly commercial, why would I care about making an good impression on the peasants? <SNORT>

When I was a kid, flying meant Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. And I still wear a suit and tie when attending church, although it is now popular to dress as if one if getting ready to change the oil in one's car.

If some really hairy guy wears a sleeveless wife-beater shirt, it grosses me out, and the thought of sitting next to such a person makes me want to vomit. So I do care what other people wear. If an airline were to have a "resort casual" dress code, I would be more likely to fly it. As for the bad smell, I do wish the airlines would just have a list of rules like they do for exit rows that remind people to take a shower, use extra-strong, unscented antiperspirant, and refrain from using cologne or perfume.

Surely a "lady" would not wear a T shirt !! What next, gentlemen not wearing a tie or even a cravat in first ! Some people seem to think travel should be comfortable ! I thin the COC should state the standards of dress to avoid offending some of the FT ers !

Hear, hear. But...you went to meetings on Sundays? :eek:

Indeed!

A couple weeks ago we were booked on a flight that ended up being 4 hours late causing us to miss our connection, etc. etc. This thread popped into my mind as I glanced around at my fellow waitees.

I normally never notice how someone is dressed. As long as they don't smell bad and personal bits are covered, I don't care.

I took casual notice of what people were wearing both during the waiting and boarding of two AA flights and a UA flights 8 days later.

What I noticed is at least 75% were in jeans or sweats and tshirts or other very casual. About 20% were in khaki/Docker type with tshirts, polo other pull over, etc. And I'm giving a very generous 5% that were in slacks and button down shirts with or without coat.

So bottom line DH and I do dress like the majority when flying, which means casual and comfortable wear.

I'm usually the most casually dressed person in J or F and often the youngest as well. FAs still treat me wonderfully. I do get looks sometimes from other passengers as I walk by them in line, or when they walk through the J cabin on their way to Y.

My travel outfit usually consists of sneakers (latest travel sneakers have been Adidas NMDs I picked up in Lisbon), comfy joggers, a t-shirt and a light jacket.

If I know I'm going to see some of the higher ups in my company on my flight, I'll usually dress up a bit. I once got to the airport in GVA and realized the CEO of my company was on the same flight back to LAX. He didn't even give me a second look, despite having met me several times...

Smelling bad is the worst and you have to put up with it anyway. I don't like sitting next to some hairy guy in a tank top, short shorts and flip flops, and there's nothing I can do about that either except gripe on FT.

Will you sit next to a lady wearing flip flops in F? I find the longer I am away the less I really care about dressing up. As long as I am neat that's all that matters.

I usually wear either a nice pair of dark blue jeans or Khaki Pants along with a button shirt. I have a nice J Crew, Brooks Brothers and just purchased two Stafford Travel Wrinkle Free shirts from JC Penny(one Rockefeller Grey and the other Oxford Blue).

To me one should look decent especially going to Europe. If the destination is warm then I will wear a nice pair of shorts and a nice short sleeve polo or sport shirt or my La Crosse polo shirt.

BTW check out the Stafford Travel Shirt here and let me know what you think about it for travel.

http://www.jcpenney.com/stafford-tra...208-adType^PLA

Sleepwear :p

Nothing I can do about how anyone dresses, or doesn't. I just sit there and keep to myself. But as to what privately offends me, the sum total of exposure adds up. Flip flops alone wouldn't do it.

Too dressy for me. My husband would never wear a dress shirt as he'd think it is too stiff and not relaxed enough.

However if you like it it looks really nice.

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Gang -

I hope this is the right place to post this. If not then perhaps a moderator can tell me where or move it him/herself.

I flew from BOS to RDU today on Delta. There was a millennial on the flight dressed in jeans and a 'muscle shirt'. The top made a traditional wife-beater look like a sweatshirt. Who wants to sit next to someone who is practically not even wearing a shirt?

Does anything go these days?

Bob

Yes. Any sense of class has been lost in the current world.

Welcome to Flyertalk to both of you.

Excuse me then while I pop some popcorn in the microwave.

Yes.

I do if she's young and hot. Add a pair of daisy dukes and an otherwise hum drum flight is an eye candy extravaganza! :D

I just re-watched “This is Spinal Tap” over the weekend. This thread will always remind me of it.

I dress for comfort when flying irrespective of class of travel. Seems silly to do otherwise.

If there is a reboot of Spinal Tap, I’d like to see them go through Global Entry and declare the cucumber :D

Consider private jets.

Doesn't functionality come into play? I saw this Web site and was thinking to give some of their allegedly pick-pocket proof shorts a try.

I dress to protect myself to the maximum extent possible from TSA gropers. Long slacks, shoes with socks, a fitted top. I care less about how other pax perceive me than I do about keeping those nasty blue gloves off my skin.

A couple of weeks ago my other half took her cousin and his wife (in their early 20s) to JFK for a short domestic flight leaving at 6am. She was wearing 5" heels and he was dressed to the nines. Much to our amusement we later learned from another family member that they like to dress up because other passengers might think they are someone important or a celebrity. When we learned this we struggled to keep a straight face :D

You'll find me in a polo shirt or maybe button up shirt if I've come from the office wearing either jeans or shorts depending on the temperature. On longer flights I'll change into t-shirt and PJ bottoms once onboard, unless the airline provides them.

Your cousins' belief is humorous to me because if one pays attention to how the rich and famous actually dress in public most of the time, it's very different. They dress to the nines when they want to cause a stir. More often they want not to be stopped left, right, and center by admirers, and will dress down. But because they're wealthy, powerful, and/or fashion conscious it's not in their nature to go completely Joe-schmoe. Mastering the art of dressing half casual is how you get strangers at the club, casino, hotel, airport, etc. treating you like you might be someone important.

Yeah. I posted on another thread that I sat I front of Robert Plant on a flight from JFK to London and he was wearing jeans and a Hawaiian type shirt as I recall. I’ve run into DeNiro a couple times as well, also dressed very casually.

I've never really paid any attention to what other people planes or see why I should care. I may have a blazer on, but that is purely because I like having lots of pockets.

I don't get it either!

What is somewhat amusing is the cousin's wife works for a well renowned stylist here in NYC! They have quite a few A list clients so you think she'd know better if that was her goal.

wife and i were returning from abul symbol(sp). there were about 200 people lined up to get through the airport scanner. a pretty young thing in front of us set the machine off . she go back and take off shirt. then jewelry one at a time. then this and that. she got down to panties and bra, and still set the machine off. wife wanted to go next to join the fun. she was really upset when our guards walked wife outside the line and put us on the plane.

^^^
One can never have too many pockets while traveling

That's why I choose cargo pants.

this post in pointless without pictures!

My choice as well. I also like safari-type shirts with larger, secured pockets for my passport.

The only thing about multiple pockets is making sure all of them are empty before going through security. :)

The one thing that defines the truly wealthy and/or truly important people from the pretenders: Manners. People with manners won't be wearing wife-beaters and Daisy Dukes, but neither will they be wearing cocktail attire in FC unless they're going directly to a wedding or other function as soon as they deplane (which is highly unlikely).

Regardless of what they're wearing, their attitudes, manners, and breeding will always come through because that's how they were raised. As was referenced earlier in this thread, I've found that if I treat FAs and GAs like human beings and am warm and friendly with them, 9 times out of 10 they will respond in kind.

It's really not that hard to do and I don't have to give up my personal comfort so I can 'dress to impress' my fellow passengers who I will never see again in my life.

On international J flights it's Dockers style cargo pants, suede slip ons from Sergio's boutique in Rio, matching belt, and a classy button down collar shirt. Comfortable and presentable.

In J or economy flown in country it's jeans and whatever shirt I want to wear that day, and this can include t-shirts, weather permitting. Not the shredded torn style, but good jeans and designer t-shirts.

I hope for the sake of our children people show up for Elon or Branson's space fights in suits and ties, so we can wax poetically about how glamorous space travel used to be in the good old days, before they start cryogenically freezing, shrink wrapping and stacking us like sausages to improve yield.

The first time we flew in first class, I actually tried to look up online if there was a dress code for flying there. I was quite willing to follow any required dress code. Once I learned that there was not one, I went for comfort. That doesn't mean I was flying in pajamas, but I went with the comfortable pair of jeans and a loose fitting top that doesn't show anything when I have to bend over and grab my luggage to put it into the overhead rack.

I dress in neat, clean, but comfortable (for me) clothing. The longer the flight, the more I care about my comfort level.