Airlines to customers: You can't wear that

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Airlines give many reasons for refusing to let you board, but none stir as much debate as this: How you're dressed.

A woman flying from Las Vegas on Southwest this spring says she was confronted by an airline employee for showing too much cleavage. In another recent case, an American Airlines pilot lectured a passenger because her T-shirt bore a four-letter expletive. She was allowed to keep flying after draping a shawl over the shirt.

Both women told their stories to sympathetic bloggers, and the debate over what you can wear in the air went viral.

It's not always clear what's appropriate. Airlines don't publish dress codes. There are no rules that spell out the highest hemline or the lowest neckline allowed. That can leave passengers guessing how far to push fashion boundaries. Every once in a while the airline says: Not that far.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/487934...-you-cant-wear

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Have you or someone you know ever been denied a flight because of attire? Have you seen this happen at an airport? Where do airline standards of appropriate attire come from? Are the standards clear?

What say you, GCers?

The photo in the article has cleavage and she could have worn a tank top or something under the dress. Howeverrrrrrrr, will people go crazy over some cleavage? I hope the same policy would exist if a man had his shirt unbuttoned a great deal with no undershirt. (I know a man who wears his shirt unbuttoned a great deal with no undershirt during the summer yet he thinks it is inappropriate when women show cleavage or wear very tight attire.)