Prurient Interests

Does Southwest Airlines have a dress code for passengers? Recall that recently a woman was made to keep a blanket over her legs in order to stay on the flight. She's not alone. In another incident, a woman was made to wrap a blanket around her shoulders in order to fly wearing a halter-top dress.

Southwest -- which dressed its stewardesses in hot pants and called itself "the love airline" back in the 1970s -- relies on employees to decide whether a passenger's attire may offend other customers.

  CNN

And this ain't the seventies.

But what kind of policy is that? Allowing the employees to decide what the passengers can wear? Very bizarre. If it's what might offend the other passengers, then I'd suggest anyone caught in this predicament in the future demand to take a poll.

"We don't have a dress code. We rely on our employees to use common sense, good judgment and good taste," [Southwest spokesman Chris] Mainz said. "It's so rare for us to have to address a customer's clothing issue."

Apparently not. You've got some fashion nazis working your airlines, pal.

But really, this is the trend for the U.S. Our "war on terror" and the religious right's reach into politics is giving us a country of petty tyrants unleashed.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.