The woman who was too sexy for Southwest Airlines appeared on the Today Show this morning in the outfit she was wearing on the flight.
It’s just really not offensive at all. Tacky, yes, but white denim isn’t illegal. Neither is flashing a little bit of your underwear as you sit down. Kyla assured Matt Lauer that she had her legs crossed and wasn’t showing off her… you know.
If this outfit is enough to get you a public lecture from a flight attendant we must have missed the part where they constantly publicly humiliate men for rampant exposed butt crack. Does that take place during the safety lecture? We never pay attention.
Southwest gave the Today Show a statement:
“Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert’s revealing attire on the flight that day. As a compromise, we asked her to adjust her clothing to be less revealing, she complied, and she traveled as scheduled. When a concern is brought to our Employees’ attention, we address that situation directly with the Customer(s) involved in a discreet and professional manner. Fortunately, as an airline that carries approximately 96 million Customers a year, these situations are extremely rare.”
Kyla isn’t happy with that statement and is still looking for an apology.
Thrown off plane for outfit deemed too skimpy [Today Show]
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#1. 90% of the people saying she is ugly probably wish they had a girlfriend at all.
#2. She isn’t wearing anything offensive in the least.
#3. It isn’t an airline’s place to tell her what to wear. Perhaps if she were exposing herself in some way, yes. Otherwise…no.
#4. No one cares about antiquated traditions about when to wear what colors. It’s nice if you have some historical knowledge of outmoded traditions that have no real meaning in today’s times, but be aware you will probably be the only one observing them.
#5. If you were at an amusement park wearing perfectly normal clothes, and some 16 year old running the roller coaster told you to change clothes, would you run into the nearest overpriced gift shop and buy a new outfit? Hell no.
@edebaby:
She didn’t pack any bags because it was a day trip so she had nothing to change into.
I predict the Senate will soon launch a hands on investigation into the matter.
@velvetjones:
I saw the piece live in the east coast, you could NOT see her cooch, just her bright white thong.
Perhaps she was in a rush to catch the plane and didn’t have time to shave or put underwear on…
Yes. There was a time when people dressed up for flights. There was also a time when you didn’t have to worry that you might be crammed like a sardine for an extra 5 hours in a hot airplane while “weather” 1000 miles away clears up. And you wonder why anyone wears anything other than a sweat suit on an airplane.
@SkyeBlue:
How is that at all relevant? Are you people so insecure about yourselves that you must take every opportunity possible to put others down?
@velvetjones: yes, saw the square of obstruction on the central time zone show too. had to rewind tivo for closer inspection.
Freedom is just another word for “go back upstairs and change those pants young lady or you aren’t going anywhere” I guess. The gall of some powermad losers to bother with this CUSTOMER’S appearance. What next, “you’re too dark and your nose is too big” ??
@Saboth:
1-I have a wife, AND an imginary girlfreind.
2-Of course not; but offense is in the eye of the offended.
3-I agree.
4-I didn’t even know this, and wouldn’t care anyhow.
5-See 3.
the comments to this post are out of control and so mysoginistic and judgemental. this has nothing to do with how what you think this woman looks like or what you think the reasoning is behind her flying somewhere for a dr.’s appt.– this woman was scolded and humiliated for wearing an outfit that may not have been to the flight attendant’s taste, is not obscene or more revealing than what people are wearing to walk down the street in NYC.
maybe i’m alone on this — and i know it’s a fine line — but when i hear about this and airlines not allowing women who are breast feeding on flights it makes me very nervous.
and fyi — on the return flight she didn’t have a single problem and was, in fact, complemented by a flight attendant on her outfit.
Who cares… as long as she wasn’t showing off her snatch to the entire plane.
This reminds me of one of my (many) favorite Futurama quotes:
Fry: “I prefer shows of the genre ‘World’s blankiest blank.’”
TV Station Operator: “Well, she is wearing the world’s shortiest skirt.”
Next time I fly, I fly with a shirt that says FSCK it. WHen they tell me to take it off, I’ll make them buy me a shirt. Then I’ll put my FSCK shirt back on mid-flight, hoping to get it diverted and me arrested, then lawsuit rich
Yes, I’d be an asshole to everyone on the plane for my RIGHT to wear a goddamn shirt that doesn’t have any profanity on it.
@Aut0mat1c: I’d care if she was showing her snatch off. Then again, I’m straight and not a protesant, err prude.
@TheBigLewinski: Yes, they fuzzed out a flash of her panties, I didn’t mean to insinuate that it was X-rated. My point was that the irony of the situation was hysterical. She derailed the whole segment in one, um, sitting.
@Leiterfluid: Kudos. It’s always a good day when you can work a Futurama quote in!
the flight attendant should have got a woman instead to offer her a blanket and a hint-hint that seems to be the only mistake or do we all got to sue everytime a gay flight server annoys us
Their statement said that “”Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert’s revealing attire on the flight that day”…
A “concern”? They are admitting that they’ll do the bidding of any passenger who is offended by anything? Even though they previously admitted they don’t have a written dress code?
I can’t tell you how great this is to know.
Just to get this straight: If I complain about a guy with his butt-crack showing, Southwest will jump right on it?
And hey – If you don’t like tacky hair extensions, Southwest’ll boot the trailer trash off the plane for you!
OMG is she really wearing blue eye shadow? You are so outta here, courtesy of the self-appointed fashion police & Southwest!
This is gonna be sooooo sweet!
Why do people posting here feel the need to bash her looks? I’m going to guess that most of you guys (yes, it’s almost all guys) aren’t exactly Brad Pitt.
Grow up, boys.
@velvetjones:
Yes, I saw the blur on her crotch during the segment as well! I wonder if anyone in the east coast could tell us what was under her skirt?
While I don’t think that outfit is inappropriate for travel, it WAS pretty funny to see the blurred out crotch when she sat back down on the couch.
@shaygo: God, seriously. “Oh no, a mildly unattractive woman! Get the barf bags!” What the hell is up with that?
I think it has nothing to do with the overall “sexiness” of that outfit, and rather, everything to do with the general tackiness of it. I mean, look at her! the flight attendant sounds, to me, as though he’s a gay guy who gets off on critiquing people’s clothes. I know a few of them myself, one who brought a woman to tears for haranguing her in an elevator for wearing white after labor day.
he didn’t actually make little miss attention ho’ get off the plane, just toyed around with her and made fun of her awful outfit.
seriously, does anyone really dress like that? ugh. I’d be snickering with my friends about it, too.
The question really should be where the heck were the OTHER people sitting that they could see into her skirt? Aren’t the seats like seriously almost back to back? Unless she was sitting spread eagle with no underwear on in the aisle facing other people, how would anyone see the snatch? And furthermore, I think if someone actually saw the vajayjay, Southwest Airline probably would have said “Well we asked her to cover up her VAGINA.” Yeah, it probably would’ve been mentioned since its kind of a big deal.
I don’t see any issue with her showing some skin as long as she is neither fat or ugly. Were she either one of those it’d be an entirely different matter.
The obvious solution to this problem is to issue more modest clothing to passengers. Ladies whose outfits are on the skimpy side can be given full-length hoods and burkas. Those shouldn’t upset anyone on the plane. Hooray!
@chouchou:
You’ve been flying to Vegas I guess!
@FreakyStyley: I aim to please!
@Snazz: As long as I can wear something like this outfit to the wedding!
Even if the young woman had her knees a foot apart, her privates would only be showing to the seatback in front of her.
Someone was waaaaaayyyy too uptight.
After all the trauma and expense she suffered on that plane ride, next time she travels, I would like to extend to her an all expenses paid mustache ride to the destination of her choice… and I wont make her adjust her outfit.
At the mall this weekend, I saw a teenage girl (with her mother!) who was wearing a very similar skirt. She barely bent over and her cheeks were visible. I found it offensive. Not kick off an airplane offensive, but if the net impact of this is that skanky girls think twice about what the wear in public, I’m all for it.
2 words – Brown Bag
I think i see where she could hide a letter opener… or a night stick flashlight
looks like southwest changed the “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service” motto stores enforce, to “No Taste, Yes Skanky, No Flight”. Dress code for the general public in a business has been established.
Southwest wrong? Legally no. But its still lame.
She’d be too sexy for United, that’s for sure.
You have to be at least 50 years old or at least 50 pounds overweight to be a flight attendant on United.
Having seen other posters chastised as misogynistic, I will refrain from cracking wise about possible aquatic life aromas filling the cabin due to missing layers of covering or possible safety concerns due to an exposed cavity creating a large pressure difference in the cabin.
Jokes like that would simply not be appropriate.
I’ll say it again, there is nothing wrong with these clothes for a girl that age and of that body type. If it was an extremely fat person shoved into the clothes with rolls of fat hanging out, or a person with falling off pants or a severe case of plumber’s crack, I would be much more offended then seeing this. The skirt isn’t even that short, have you all seen what the latest trend for ages 8 and up is, high heels and skirts and shorts that barely, and I mean barely, cover even the top of the leg. I am talking about like one inch of the leg is covered, and this is frequently seen on a child! All you have to do is go to the mall in the summer to see it. To see a child around 8-10 years old dressed like this (in clothes far worse than what this woman has on) is MUCH more offensive to me than to see a properly dressed woman like this. She is not falling out of her clothes or anything, and if she wants to wear these clothes then she should be able to, since there is nothing wrong with it.
Sorry if someone mentioned it.. But it’s funny how when she sits back down you can see up her skirt.. yeah I’m a perv, but that proves it’s provocative. Did she deserve to get kicked off? Meh who cares
@SaraAB87:
I believe you’ve won the “Superficial Post of the Year” award. Really, you have no problem with her dressing like that, but you’d lose your lunch if she was a fatty?
I love the way so many people assume that just because she SAYS she had her legs crossed and wasn’t displaying anything inappropriate, she must be telling the truth. ‘Cause, you know, she certainly doesn’t LOOK like an attention whore….
Also, Southwest’s statement says they were “responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert’s revealing attire on the flight that day.” I interpret that to mean another passenger complained.
They then state that “we asked her to adjust her clothing to be less revealing, she complied, and she traveled as scheduled.” Well, as short as that skirt is, there isn’t much wiggle room, so to speak. If it was hiked up enough that she was able to adjust it to be less revealing, then she must have been putting on quite a show prior to the “adjustment”. Just like she did on the Today Show.
And you’re right, she does look like a man, but I think that’s a result of her having her hips liposuctioned (to go with her fake mammaries.)
@NEVERYONE: That is definitely an important point… it was physically impossible for her to be modest when sitting down. She freakin flashed the camera! I fail to see how that’s disruptive enough to kick somebody off an airplane, though… this alleged “Keith” character needs a talking to.
Oh, and kudos to all the mysoginistic pigs on here who say it’s okay as long as she’s not fat. It’s good to be reminded that some men still have absolutely no respect for women as human beings. Otherwise we might start thinking we’re equals, and demand the right to vote or equal pay or something. Hell, we might even demand the right to use birth control! Horrors!
Too sexy huh? I dont think so.
dear southwest,
as a concerned customer, i felt obliged to share my sentiments with you, as i will no longer, in good conscience, be able to use your services. i find the uniforms of your workers, specifically your flight attendants to be very disconcerting and quite inappropriate.
i’ve spoken with friends, colleagues, and family in the hopes that they will do the same and find other services for their travel. thanks for the good service otherwise and good luck.
sincerely,
you-ain’t-getting-anymore-of-my-money
I’ve seen people dressed worse then this where I work and we don’t kick them out or tell them it’s offensive. I’ve seen guys wearing pants with their whole ass sticking out in the back. I don’t want to see your happy face boxers but if you want to wear it go ahead. It’s not my place to tell you what to wear. I’ve seen very big women wearing lowriders with their thong string hanging out. Not something I want to see but I’m not going to go complain and get you kicked out of somewhere. Now I could see if these people were at a “high class event or something but an airline?
I agree with the person who said “if she had her legs spread a foot apart the only who sees anything would be the back of the seat in front of her. Airline seats are so smashed together, how could anyone see up her skirt. Whoever looked must have put their face right up to her knees to look.
I bet it was someone jealous of her figure and complained.
In the picture, the skirt is pulled way down, and her shirt pulled down to cover that fact. Typically a persons belly button is equal with the middle of their forearm. If she were to lift up her top, you would be able to see quite a bit! Also look at the bump on her left hip. (right side of photo) That is the top of her leg.
Kyla? You mean Kyle?
Truth be told, I’m siding with Kyla or Kyle or however it’s said.
All I can say is who cares? I don’t really find what she is wearing very attractive but I don’t find it worse then anything else I see girls wearing around here. I think Southwest is being a little too puritan and needs to get with the now. I mean as long as she’s not naked who really cares.
@Phrugal: Ya now that you mention it it looks like that “skirt” is pulled waaaay down. If it were another inch up it’s a total crotch shot. The more I look at the outfit the more I’m siding with Keith the fashion policeman.
@Buran: I always thought it was “No White Shoes” after Labor Day but let’s ask Yahoo….
besides the fact that bitch is heinous anyways… that is besides the point. its complete BS for a flight attendant to enforce a dress code that is not regularly and equally applied to everyone. i would sue the airline. i bet you if paris hilton wore that exact same outfit on that exact same flight the flight attendant wouldn’t say anything!!!
@fairywench:
The “it’s ok b/c she’s not fat” comments are insensitive, perhaps, but not misogynistic. They are directed toward women more often than men only b/c guys typically do not bear their midriffs/thighs/etc.