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Underdressed Passenger or Overreacting Airline?
Young Woman’s Outfit Raises Eyebrows, Ire of Southwest Flight Attendant
By DAVID SCHOETZ
Sept. 7, 2007
Her outfit aboard a Southwest Airlines plane two months ago first earned her a flight attendant’s reprimand and now has sparked a decency debate that may result in a lawsuit.
Kyla Ebbert, a blond, shapely 23-year-old San Diego coed who also works shifts at a Hooters restaurant, boarded the flight to Tucson, Ariz., on a one-day round-trip visit to an Arizona doctor’s appointment. She had settled into her seat when a flight attendant confronted her about what was later described by the airline as “revealing attire.”
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Ebbert’s so-called objectionable attire included a white, tight-fitting shirt, a green cropped sweater, and a white denim skirt cut high on her thighs.
Ebbert appeared on NBC’s “The Today Show” today wearing the same outfit and said that she was asked by a male flight attendant to come to the front of the plane by the door to the jetway. There, Ebbert said that she was told she would have to catch a later flight because she was showing too much skin and Southwest is a “family” airline.
Ebbert said she told the flight attendant she needed to remain on that flight so could make her doctor’s appointment and that because she was on a day trip, she had not packed any luggage from which she could take clothes to change.
The flight attendant, she said, suggested that she go to a gift shop to buy clothes. She offered to pull the top of her sweater tight over her breasts and her skirt down as far as possible, a compromise that was accepted.
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