At least twice in the last month, Southwest Airlines has kicked women off of flights because they were wearing “inappropriate” attire. Huh?
Oh, surely that means they were wearing a bra like a shirt (a la Sue Ellen Mischke in the Seinfeld episode “The Caddy”).
Nope. Apparently it means dressing like this:
And this:
Kyla Ebbert is the first young woman who was pulled off a plane, lectured and then sent back to her seat humiliated and disgusted. The Southwest Fashion Police struck again the following week with Setera Qassim.
I went to private Christian schools through fourth grade and was a teen with a very strict father and this reminds me of the rigid dress codes of those days. What’s next? We must kneel before we board the plane to ensure our skirt hems touch the ground.
Southwest is occasionally in the news for things like this. The only response regarding the Kyla Ebbert situation initially was a terse statement that they take act swiftly on customer concerns. In Kyla’s case, apparently her money was not as valuable as that of the person who complained.
However, to Southwest’s benefit, there was an update on their blog where they allowed comments to run the gamut on both sides of the issue without removing, moderating or closing. And the airline is apologizing to Kyla Ebbert “in typical Southwest fashion” (which means, in addition to a personal apology to Ms. Ebbert, having a “mini-skirt sale” on fares.).
What do you think?
