Posted on 09/07/2007 8:44:17 AM PDT by Drew68
It doesn’t take much to get thrown off an airplane these days, as Kyla Ebbert found out when a Southwest Airlines employee told her she was too bare for the air. Two months later, she’s still trying to figure out what was wrong with her outfit.
In an exclusive appearance Friday on TODAY, Ebbert modeled the outfit she says she wore on the flight in question. It consisted of a snug-fitting white top with a scoop neck that stopped just short of showing cleavage.
Over the shirt was a green sweater that buttoned underneath her bosom. It was finished with high-heeled sandals and a white denim mini-skirt with a fashionably frayed hem.
It was a lot more clothing than the 23-year-old college student wears on her job as a Hooters waitress. Her mother, Michele Ebbert, said she would have told her daughter if the outfit was inappropriate.
“But her outfit is fine, Michele Ebbert told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer. “She looks like every other college girl in San Diego.”
Not according to a Southwest employee identified only as “Keith,” who approached Ebbert after she had taken her seat on the plane and was listening to the flight attendants go through their pre-departure routine.
“He told me, ‘I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to take a later flight. You’re dressed inappropriately. This is a family airline. You’re dressed too provocative to fly on this flight,’ ” she told Lauer.
“I said, ‘What part of it, the shirt, the skirt? Which part?’ “ Ebbert continued, recounting her conversation with Keith about her outfit. “And he said, ‘The whole thing.’“ I said, ‘I didn’t bring any luggage with me. I don’t have anything to change into. What can I do to make sure I can get onto that flight?’ ...”
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I need a second incum, you know.
Give me something to smile about, Big Boy. ;^)
You’re in rare form today, Laz.
Never tried posting as a ghey before. It's FESTIVE! :^)
TMI!!!!
“I hate to see people criticized for having the looks God gave them.”
I guess it IS mean to make fun of this person ‘cause God made her/him/it SO UGLY. (I’m not really believing this is a woman.)
Looks to me like she’s shoved the skirt down so low towards her knees, that her Mom is probably looking at her exposed derrière. The waist of the skirt appears to be below her hips, and the top appears to be stretched down to cover any possible midriff exposure in her re-enactment of her wardrobe.
IMHO, the same outfit could have been hiked up to her waist and midriff exposed from the elastic top and sweater used to accentuate curves, to yes, be about as provocative as she could contrive without simply going naked.
IMHO, I’ve seen more nude photos that expose less than she might by wearing that outfit after placing a few items in her overhead compartment.
I have to side with SW Airlines on this one.
Well, I can’t comment on that because I don’t pay much attention to chests but I’m tired of seeing belly rolls hanging over the front of low, tight jeans in the front and butt cracks showing in the back.
See the belt-loops on that thing? Now see where her waist is? (hint it is the narrowest part below her shirt) Now you should also note that the total height of the skirt wait to fringe is the same or less than the distance to her navel from the top of the skirt. She has that thing pulled WAY WAY down. Which means on the plane, taking into account how it is meant to be worn, that shirt was probably 3-5 inches higher.
LOL - nothing like modesty these days!
She should find out who complained and sue them and Southwurst. No doubt it was some bozo connected with one of the Imans from CAIR headquartered in Tucson
Was she wearing undergarments?
Not sure about on the plane, but as I posted early, she was in the Today show studio, because when she sat down, she gave the audience a nice crotch shot....silky white panties if I recall :)
I am a female!:)
I am the wrong person for this stuff I am a mind and soul person, and a normal body is all that is required!
She needs to be grounded and sent to my room.
My mind and soul is all buffed out with ripped abs and a slender waist.
I work on my mind and soul four times a week for two to three hours a time.
I’m being ghey on this thread, so can I come too?
All airlines (and trains, buses, public buildings etc.) should have published dress codes, because they do not this case seems arbitrary. Just depending on peoples "good taste" gave us rap music, leisure suites, men in speedos, and the Hillary pants suite - clearly we must have standards. Arbitrary rules with arbitrary enforcement a bad recipe, but there is probably more to the story than is reported.
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