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Offline Magdalene

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Airline Tells Woman Her Outfit Too Skimpy
« on: September 08, 2007, 05:32:30 PM »
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  • Good job, Southwest airlines! :applause:  :rahrah:


    SAN DIEGO (AP) - A 23-year-old woman who boarded a Southwest Airlines plane in a short skirt for a flight to Arizona says she was led off the plane for wearing an outfit that was considered too skimpy.

    Kyla Ebbert said a Southwest employee asked her to leave her seat while the plane was preparing to leave San Diego's Lindbergh Field on July 3.

    Ebbert, a student who was headed to Tucson for a doctor's appointment, said Friday on NBC's "Today" show that the employee told her she would have to catch a later flight.

    "You're dressed inappropriately. This is a family airline. You're too provocative to fly on this plane," she quoted the employee as saying.

    "I said, 'What part is it? The shirt? The skirt? Which part?' And he said the whole thing."

    Ebbert was eventually allowed back on the plane after offering to adjust her sweater but said she was humiliated and embarrassed.

    "I felt like everybody was staring me. They had all heard him lecturing me," she told "Today" show host Matt Lauer. She appeared on the show in the same short white skirt, white shirt and green sweater that she said she wore on the flight.

    Chris Mainz, a spokesman for the Dallas-based airline, said a customer service supervisor asked Ebbert to leave the plane and addressed her in the walkway leading back to the terminal, "away from the other customers."

    The employee felt the outfit "revealed too much" but was placated after Ebbert made adjustments that included covering her stomach, Mainz said.



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    « Reply #1 on: September 08, 2007, 05:48:44 PM »
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  • great thing!:roll-laugh2:

    women should really be modest or get embarrassed. :rolleyes:

    women should be attractive but not provocative.  :wine-drinking:


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    « Reply #2 on: September 09, 2007, 12:06:09 AM »
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  • Here is more on the story. The girl in question said that she was embarrassed that she got reprimanded in front of the other passengers and felt that everyone was staring. Too bad she doesn't feel embarrassed that she is walking around half naked. And for your info. Miss Ebbert, everyone was staring at you before the incident, especially the men, since it's hard not to stare at a woman dressed as provocatively as you were. If you feel uncomfortable being stared at, then put some clothes on.

    Kyla Ebbert even has the audacity to think about suing the airline. I would encourage any of the passaengers who were unwillingly exposed to her half-nakedness and offended by it to counter-sue.


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    Underdressed Passenger or Overreacting Airline?

    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."

    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.

    The airline does not dispute the confrontation, but stands by its decision to "adjust" her outfit.

    "Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert's revealing attire on the flight that day," the airline said in a statement. "As a compromise, we asked her to adjust her clothing to be a little less revealing. She complied and traveled as scheduled.

    "Fortunately, as an airline that carries approximately 96 million customers a year, these situations are extremely rare."

    Though she accepted the compromise, Ebbert said she was left embarrassed by the situation, which she said played out in front of fellow passengers -- so embarrassed she requested a blanket to cover herself for the flight.

    "I was humiliated, I was embarrassed," Ebbert said on "The Today Show." "I felt like everyone was staring."

    Her mother, Michele Ebbert, who appeared with the young woman on "The Today Show" along with an attorney representing the family, wrote the airline a letter after her daughter told her about the episode and sent her a camera phone picture of her outfit.

    "Her outfit is fine," Michele Ebbert said. "She looks like every other college girl in San Diego."

    Ebbert claims that a Southwest Airlines flight attendant on her return trip later that day complimented her on the very same outfit that almost got her thrown off the earlier flight.

    At first, Ebbert said, she just wanted an apology. She never got it, and now she's considering a lawsuit.


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    Airline Tells Woman Her Outfit Too Skimpy
    « Reply #3 on: September 09, 2007, 10:36:13 PM »
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  • Can you post videos?

    I have found the The Today Show on Youtube on this article...

    WARNING: THE VIDEO SHOWS THE GIRL WEARING THE IMMODEST OUTFIT SHE WORE ON THE PLANE

    The Today Show


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    « Reply #4 on: September 10, 2007, 12:17:36 AM »
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  • Quote from: Wife&Mother
    Can you post videos?

    I have found the The Today Show on Youtube on this article...




    I could have posted a picture of the girl wearing the outfit, but I thought it prudent not to show the immoest picture on this forum. Wife&Mother, since you have decided to show the a video of the girl, can you please place a warning on your post since the girl is wearing the same outfit she wore on the plane, although the pulled down version. Something like this, maybe

    WARNING: THE VIDEO SHOWS THE GIRL WEARING THE IMMODEST OUTFIT SHE WORE ON THE PLANE


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    « Reply #5 on: September 10, 2007, 03:58:46 AM »
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  • When she sat back down, you could see her white panties. And when she is sitting, the skirt goes all the up to her butt, so that she looks like she is just sitting in underwear. There is no way you can sit in that type of skirt. (Warning again to the men out there not to watch this video).

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    « Reply #6 on: September 10, 2007, 04:14:04 AM »
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  • ehem.... please delete that link, Wife&Mother.  :barf:

    it's so disgusting for a Catholic forum! :really-mad2:

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    « Reply #7 on: September 10, 2007, 01:36:35 PM »
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  • I wonder at what point the headlines shifted from "too skimpy" and "too underdressed" to "too sexy to fly". The former were obviously the airline's complaint--I don't think anyone accused her of being "too sexy".

    I was putting the blame on the YouTube poster, but then noticed that the "sexy" was thrown in by the Today show as well.
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    « Reply #8 on: September 14, 2007, 03:52:16 AM »
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  • The skirt was way too short. But the top didn't seem that scandalous. I've seen worse!

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    « Reply #9 on: September 14, 2007, 12:03:32 PM »
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  • Wonder if she wore the sweater on t.v. There is worse and that is true, but it is only because we see this and it is thrust in our faces every where we look makes us say, well it could be worse. And, the media only wanted to make a case in point that this poor women has FREEDOM and only Judgemental people would say she should dress more modestly

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    « Reply #10 on: September 18, 2007, 09:09:49 PM »
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  • This woman is a hooters waitress. I have no sympathy. If she was a sweet girl who made a wardrobe error once and got checked I would feel bad. This girl spends her life and makes her living selling her (fake) assets to men as objects to be drooled over. She gets paid to be stared at and now she is having a fit? She needs to get over herself.