By Aaron Blumer
Mar
27
2017
"[T]wo girls were stopped from boarding a United Airlines flight because they were wearing leggings. The girls were flying as guests of employees, and thus were subject to the company's dress code." BBC News
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Good luck with that...
This is really a tough one; many people call pants with ease "mom jeans" these days, and not without reason; fashion houses are trying to make pants without hiring anyone who knows how to sew a real seam, and they're making up for it by adding spandex to everything to make it sort of "fit". Hence "jeggings" and the like.
Since not all families do the work to encourage young ladies to have a little bit of ease in their pants, what United is saying is that the daughters of many of their employees are going to need to travel wearing sweats or skirts.
Interesting to see United running into the same buzz saw that plagues summer camps and schools nationwide, though.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
A funny in there...
.....is that the scandal with lululemon yoga pants was described as their being "considered" too sheer. Well, yes, I "consider" a garment too sheer when I can see through it, but ordinary people would say they "were" too sheer, or that they were "see-through".
This is, sad to say, the world we're living in. The bright side is the strange phrasing is an indication that the writers would admit that it was wrong to go out in public with one's privates showing. They simply don't want to admit that this was the case with LuluLemon.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
Context
United has a dress code for people traveling on an employee's travel pass
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/27/521649877/outrage-expl...
I worked for American Airlines for 2 years: We could use our passes to fly (basically for free back then) but had to wear a sport coat, dress shirt & tie, dress slacks and dress shoes. The rule was for employees!
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This is a complete non-story and has nothing to do with a customer wearing leggings!
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Sure looks to me like it was about the leggings. Not compliant with dress code.
Those people at United are such legalists.
The RIghts and the Wrongs
My brother has worked for AA for over 25 years. When he first told our parents about flying as family of an employee, they were sent a video tape from American Airlines called something like "The Rights and the Wrongs" which was nothing but how they were to be dressed. My brother still follows these rules when he jets as an employee.
Bob Rogish
A couple of other articles on it...
FWIW
The Left and Leggings (Washington Times)
Here’s why United Airlines banned girls with leggings from a flight (NY Daily News)