No Shirt
No Shoes
No Problem

Please, just no tank tops.

yeah, definitely no tank tops on men!

hear hear!

C'mon! There a re a lot of women I'd not like to see in tank tops .. on a plane, or anywhere else!

but some you would, oz?

you GUYS are sooooo double standard! (including premex)

Glad this is finally veering off to humor. Frankly, i find the earliest of the statements rather offensive...elitist, condescending....I love to fly long-haul FC in shorts and t-shirts....easier to nap, allows one less laundry trip on arrival. Finding those we don't approve of as somehow "less deserving" seems might close to racist separatist and other baseless discriminatory practices. I, frankly, though I'm always in suit and tie at work, actually find a cabin full of uncomfortably overdressed folks spending 15 hours transpacific in suits amazingly foolish.
Maybe we could have 2 front cabins....one for the easily offended foppish, and one for the pragmatists?

rainlady-

Should you ever be so unfortunate to exit a plane via the slide-down chute, you will be directed to remove your shoes. Natural fibers are preferable, but in the case of a flash-over condition, it is doubtful any fabric would be of any help unless it was Nomex(tm) and/or Kevlar. See: http://www.flightsuits.com/uniform_nomex.html

I like to look presentable when I fly. Oh wait - I like to look presentable all the time. But that's just me. If I don't like or appreciate what somebody else is wearing on an airplane or otherwise, it's my own issue. I have no right to tell someone else what they should or should not do - in fact, I usually forget my Should Book at home anyways.

All I hope for is that the person next to me doesn't have any wicked b.o. (and if that is the case, then I move!) Besides - my nose shuts off in 7 minutes anyways.

KOKONUTZ - clothing optional? Not a bad idea, but don't you stick to the seats?

couldnt agree with you more, honeybear....
some dont like t-shirts and shorts, others dont like tank-tops, koko & co. dont like clothings.... me, like you, cannot stand B.O., plus over perfumed...
(for occasion such as this, i would repeatedly pull out my VICKS and rub it all over my forehead, under nose, neck... until i couldnt smell a thing... oh, eucalyptus oil will work as well)
double-0h-sevenNY has a point too, cant imagine sitting in a plane for 8-15 hours straight in a suit and tie, or girdle/control top pantyhose... argh!
(either gender... )

so to each his/her own, be as comfortable as you�d like to be....

Hunny: That was a problem with the old leather seats. The new fabric seats feel just divine against bare skin.

BTW, thanks for taking the time to talk to me on the phone the other day from Vegas...RUDE!

MisterNice: Thanks for the info. I had never hear of Nomex. I had just read of a case where medical staff had trouble treating burns in a plane crash victim because a synthetic fabric (think it was nylon) had literally melted onto the person's skin. I don't know if the person would have been significantly better off in cotton, but the story has stuck in my mind.

I didn't know that shoes are removed before going down the chute. That must make it interesting at the bottom if there is any debris on the ground. Best not to think about it, I 'spose.

In any case, I agree with whoever said it was good to treat the dress code subject with humor. I realize that I haven't added anything funny to the discussion, but I do appreciate those who have!

And the window shades up and the window shades down and kids and no kids and perfume and no perfume and talkers and readers and oh heavens there aren't enough aircraft in the whole world....

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And now I've got that annoying Vogues song stuck in my head:

And there's a five o'clock me inside my clothes
Thinkin' that the world looks fine, yeah

This is the best thread we've had in a long time. Today I wore a suit and tie and was treated like a king. I forget what a difference it can make. As a rule I only wear ties to weddings and funerals. Fortunately this was a wedding. More tomorrow morning including the identity of our special guest star!

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