Would you fly an airline with a dress code?
 

Given the right routing/connections/seat assignments/rewards, sure. I have a closet full of suits I can still fit into but no longer wear. Even at church I'd be out of place in a suit unless it's Easter, a funeral, or a wedding.

Presumably in this new Utopia it will be okay to turn up in a cheap £75 polyester Wallmart suit just as long as you leave the Zegna jeans, Paul Smith shirts and Ferragamo loafers at home?

Will there be someone at the gate handing out 2nd hand loaner suits (with the prerequisite soup stains no doubt ) to travellers who turn up having forgotten to don their business casual attire.

On Friday evenings you could even have a slightly lesser dress code - an airline mufti day? Where as long as you still wear the jacket you will be permitted to wear linen trousers or neatly pressed chinos and a polo shirt with collar (as long as the Polo shirt remains tucked into the trousers).

This screams of a by-gone and good riddence era of snobbish values where you judge people on what they wear and not who they are.

If you want this kind of lifestyle give up flying, go every where on a Cunard liner and join an English Golfclub

I will do my best to respect my fellow travellers and hope they will do the same in return. I don't think I'm being disrepectful to anyone by choosing to travel in casual attire as long as its clean and in reasonable condition.

Oh, the irony. This one of the few restaurants I've actually worn a (cheap) tie to.

Anyway, I have no problems dressing up like it's the 1960s, so long as the airline offers service like then.

Another irony to all of this is that if an airline were to enforce a dress code, it would be most important to do it in coach and least important to do it in F.

In a First Suite, I don't really see much of my fellow pax. It's just me in my own little world.

In steerage, I'm in extremely close quarters with at least one other person, if not two, and in semi-close quarters with a handful of others.

J is, of course, somewhere in the middle. I'm probably conscious of the guy next to me, but that's it.

So to that guy wearing flip-flops and a T-shirt in CX F - just be thankful he wasn't in CX Y. :)

What complete and utter nonsense

I wear what I want, when I want. Comfort is the number one goal. On a long flight, loose-fitting jeans or sweats are my standard level of dress.

Most times when people dress for a flight they look like they need to be pressed getting off the plane. What's the point, anyway?

I was having a chuckle over this thread too.... but I started thinking.... (dnagerous and unusual I know!!:D)..

So... you are agin any kind of dress code.... be comfortable and all that...

Tank tops etc OK? bare midriffs OK?

Good.... now how about this.. the (male) pax beside you.. large, sweaty and hirsute, decides he'll be more comfortable in speedos and nothing else. No shirt.. no socks...

Still happy? Cos that's past my limit of tolerance!!:p What is there to stop "him" taking it to THAT level.. and if he CAN be told to "put something else on".. then WHERE is the line exactly?? And what authority/reason exists? And why wouldn't it be the same just for, say, bare shoulders? Again.. WHERE is the line (if there IS one) and how is acceptable/unnacceptable defined?

I'm curious.....

Let me make sure I'm clear on what you're saying: So if the guy next to you is small, dry, and hairless it would be less offensive?

I havent read thru the whole thread, so please excuse me if this has been discussed before.

I would certainly fly on an airline with dress code. I never fly in blue jeans. I do fly in colored jeans, but never anything less than a polo shirt and a sports jacket.

On another forum we discussed the same, and found that such dress code would probably only be possible in the premium cabins. And that could work...

My thoughts exactly.

Yes, I would fly an airline that enforced a dress code provided there was a different dress code for red-eyes.

On a side not it wouldn't make a difference. No one follows dres code rules anymore. I see coworkers wearing jeans on "professional" days, I see co-workers in capris and flip-flops on business casual days (business casual does not mean dress however you want :mad:), people wearing jeans and a polo at "Jaket and Tie REQUIRED" restaurants. Its really sad :rolleyes:

In all honesty I'm as shocked by what some people wear to church as what they wear on airplanes.

I guess I just don't get why people are uptight about proper dress on a plane. Do people dress like slobs sometimes? Sure. Is it the norm? No.

I go to the Met Opera about 15 times per year. The vast majority of men, myself included, wear at least a sports jacket and slacks. Some wear tuxedos. However some wear shorts and t-shirts. It's not necessarily optimal, but it also isn't rampant. Does it affect my enjoyment of the opera? Absolutely not.

I fly 12-15 times per year. In warm months, I often wear cargo shorts. In colder months - I travel in jeans (always clean). I am always in F. Do I show too much skin for a plane? Maybe in the minds of some. Does it interfere with their enjoyment of the flight? Who cares?

I speak to my companion using an appropriate volume. I am polite to the flight crew and other passengers. I help little old ladies put their bags overhead. If someone is going to focus on my shorts or jeans, the problem rests with that person, not me. Maybe they are just jealous because I have nice legs!

Very well written. It is not the type of clothes per se, but how the person is groomed and how they behave. You can look smart, sexy and sophisicated in shorts and a tee shirt if you are well groomed, in proportion to your weight and height and the clothing is of some quality (in other words no ragged tee shirts that denote drinking excessive amounts of beer or consumming mass quantities of food). Can't tell you how many 300 pound, unkempt and sweaty pigs in suits that I have sat next to in F. These are often the same paxs treating FAs like they are personal servants.

i personally do not own/wear jeans, shorts, or sandals. (or polo shirts)

i rarely wear sneakers and tshirts.

so dress codes dont cause me much concern.

id be more interested in having improved standards of behavior rather than dress.