Woman kicked off plane for too-short skirt Options

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20638479/

Southwest Airlines pulled a 23 year old woman off an airplane, stating that her skirt was too short. Eventually, she was allowed back on the plane and given a blanket to cover up with.

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 asked her to step off of the plane and when they were in the jetway, he told her that her clothing was inappropriate and asked her to change her clothes.

“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?’ I had a doctor’s appointment. I had to be there.”

“He said ‘You can go to the gift shop and you can buy something to wear there. Until then, you’re not flying on this flight,’ ” Ebbert said.

A compromise was finally reached when Ebbert promised to pull up her top, which wasn’t showing cleavage to begin with, and pull down her tiny skirt.

Ebbert went back onto the plane and to her seat, feeling that every eye on the plane was staring at her.

“I was humiliated. I was embarrassed. They all heard him lecturing me,” she said.


Kyla Ebbert models the outfit she wore on the Southwest flight Friday on TODAY.

Yes, the skirt is a bit short, but come on. Seriously?

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Also, does anyone remember the Southwest flights out of LBB that utilized the 737s with the rear facing seats?

I sat across from two girls who were wearing way too short of skirts to be sitting across from and they didn't think about it when they sat down. I forced myself not to look but they made it a joke and I actually had a good conversation with them.