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"Thrown off plane for outfit deemed too skimpy Woman shows off threads Southwest almost grounded her for wearing Another woman dressed too sexy to fly? Sept. 11: A California woman claims that Southwest Airlines nearly kicked her off a flight because of the way she was dressed. KNBC's Patrick Healy reports. NBC News Channel By Mike Celizic TODAYShow.com contributor Updated: 6:43 p.m. ET Sept 11, 2007 It doesn’t take much to get thrown off an airplane these days, as Kyla Ebbert found out when a Southwest Airlines employee told her she was too bare for the air. Two months later, she’s still trying to figure out what was wrong with her outfit. In an exclusive appearance Friday on TODAY, Ebbert modeled the outfit she says she wore on the flight in question. It consisted of a snug-fitting white top with a scoop neck that stopped just short of showing cleavage. Over the shirt was a green sweater that buttoned underneath her bosom. It was finished with high-heeled sandals and a white denim mini-skirt with a fashionably frayed hem. Story continues below ?advertisement 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. She asked for a blanket, covered her legs, and cried quietly all the way to Tucson. When she got off the plane, she called her mother. “She was just devastated,” Michele told Lauer. “She said, ‘Mom, I can’t believe what just happened to me.’ She was. She said ‘I didn’t want to make a scene. I didn’t want to draw attention. I just sat there crying.’ ” No apology When Michele saw a picture her daughter emailed from her cell phone, she couldn’t believe what had happened. She also thought to herself, “Oh, no. They don’t do this and get away with it.” The San Diego Union-Tribune called Southwest Airlines and asked if the airline had a dress code. Could, for example, a woman board wearing a bikini top? The newspaper on Tuesday quoted the Southwest agent it spoke with as saying, “We don't have a problem with it if she's covered up in all the right spots. We don't have a dress code.” The Ebberts had not gone public with the story, which happened two months ago, asking only for an apology from the airline. But none was forthcoming. In response to a TODAY Show query, the airline sent the following statement: "Southwest Airlines was responding to a concern about Ms. Ebbert's revealing attire on the flight that day. As a compromise, we asked her to adjust her clothing to be less revealing, she complied, and she traveled as scheduled. When a concern is brought to our Employees' attention, we address that situation directly with the Customer(s) involved in a discreet and professional manner. Fortunately, as an airline that carries approximately 96 million Customers a year, these situations are extremely rare." The Ebberts have engaged an attorney, Martin Reed, to help them decide what to do next. Asked if he will file suit, Reed told Lauer, “We’ve not made that decision, yet. We’re considering all the facts and all the circumstances.” “Initially, I just wanted an apology,” Kyla told Lauer. “At this point, just some acknowledgement that they were wrong. That would be better.” What really tops the whole story off is that Ebbert wore the same outfit on the return flight to San Diego later that day. A female flight attendant also took note of it, according to Ebbert. “I was complimented by the stewardess on my return flight,” she said."

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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20638479/?GT1=10357

WTF. What kind of backwards tool does this?

Also, MAN-FACE

9/11/2007 11:52:34 PM

shes a whore

got called out


got offended

9/11/2007 11:53:13 PM

That's a man baby.

9/11/2007 11:54:55 PM

hahahahahah

a hooters girl


awesome

9/11/2007 11:55:20 PM

2nd time in a month that this has happend btw

9/11/2007 11:57:05 PM

i'll bet it was the stewards who wanted her off

9/12/2007 12:05:23 AM

i bet the bitch wasnt wearing underwear and showing her cooch to everybody

9/12/2007 12:06:08 AM

i bet her cooch was a dick

9/12/2007 12:06:43 AM

FTW

9/12/2007 12:06:54 AM

What was that black movie about flying with Tom Arnold in it?

This makes me think about that for some reason


Tom Arnold FTMFW always, btw

9/12/2007 12:07:38 AM

^ Soul Plane?

9/12/2007 12:12:19 AM

That outfit is, by all standards, skimpy. I'm not sure where grown women get off imagining a 4" skirt isn't entirely and completely skimpy.

I know they're low-riding skirts, but if something gets bunched up, the skirt rides all up on your hips with your sheer-pantied vagina pressed against wherever your sitting.

That said, the girl should ride. Wherever she wants to go, she should ride.

It's totally absurd that people are being called out for their attire.

9/12/2007 12:29:09 AM

^ do you like girls, or guys, or both?

9/12/2007 9:23:04 AM

it's just no one wanted the chance for a shlong to slide out of the skirt during turbulence.

9/12/2007 9:26:03 AM

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"WTF. What kind of backwards tool does this? Also, MAN-FACE"

ahaha

9/12/2007 9:28:38 AM

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"2nd time in a month that this has happend btw"

this is the same chick.

9/12/2007 10:37:40 AM

of course she hired an attorney

at least the other girl doesnt look like a man

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/20722619/

some nice restaurants and clubs have a dress code, so whats wrong with southwest wanting to do the same?

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 10:44 AM. Reason : .]

9/12/2007 10:42:07 AM

Hahaha the second I saw the picture I thought "butterface"

9/12/2007 10:42:33 AM

That's not a skirt, its a belt

9/12/2007 11:08:39 AM

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"some nice restaurants and clubs have a dress code, so whats wrong with southwest wanting to do the same?"

because they don't actually have one. it was some anal/nosy bastard getting into other peoples business and inflicting his views on someone else with no legal authority

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 11:11 AM. Reason : was she not wearing undies or something? ]

9/12/2007 11:10:55 AM

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"was she not wearing undies or something?"

I'm thinking there was something else to the story because she is clearly trying to play it safe with the cotton knickers in the interview.

9/12/2007 11:14:51 AM

this is the gayest shit i've ever heard

9/12/2007 11:18:02 AM

This was on the news 3 days ago

9/12/2007 11:20:57 AM

^^^i agree. there's something more to this story and southwest is just trying to keep everything low key.

9/12/2007 11:37:59 AM

I would much rather fly in a plane filled with girls like her then anything else.

But thats just me.

9/12/2007 11:42:31 AM

^ 2nd girl yes, 1st girl no

9/12/2007 11:49:08 AM

she does kind of look like a man

9/12/2007 1:37:27 PM

I just got back from a flight two days ago and sat across the aisle from a hot chick with a shorter skirt than that. It made the flight a lot more enjoyable IMO.

I felt bad for her though as the flight was really cold. But that's her fault for wearing something like that.

9/12/2007 1:52:34 PM

yeah, she's dressed like a hoochie and the skirt was probly higher than shown in her pic, but that's no reason to hassle her if they dont have a policy.

9/12/2007 1:59:32 PM

Thats the problem these days, all the flight attendants are ugly fat women who feel threatened by this.

9/12/2007 2:47:23 PM

She has that skirt pulled way down. You know that shit was sitting about 3" higher when she boarded the plane. If I had to sit next to her I'd be like "Yessssss!", but, I can see how it might not be what you'd want your kids to see.

9/12/2007 2:53:19 PM

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"“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.’"

the skirt is too short, but I see nothing wrong with the shirt. Still no reason to kick her off the plane.

9/12/2007 3:03:55 PM

9/12/2007 3:09:52 PM

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"Thats the problem these days, all the flight attendants are ugly fat women who feel threatened by this."

The employee who lectured her was a guy.

9/12/2007 3:12:57 PM

have yall seen a close up of the blonde girl's face?



the bitch is 23 and looks 40+

9/12/2007 3:20:25 PM

put a dab of makeup on her and give us all some beer and we'd all do her

9/12/2007 3:22:34 PM

Oh I'm pretty sure she's already got a shit ton of makeup on

[Edited on September 12, 2007 at 3:24 PM. Reason : but other than her face, i can see your point ^]

9/12/2007 3:24:33 PM

9/12/2007 3:30:38 PM

I fly on the regular, and I can say ATL has women MUCH MUCH more skimpy than this.. thing is, I can never figure out why... I mean it's basically their ass touching that nasty ass seat

9/12/2007 3:39:46 PM

ah that's not skimpy I see worse(or well better) outfits going to class everyday.

9/12/2007 3:47:56 PM

id hit it

9/12/2007 3:50:13 PM

whoever said she prob was not wearing any underwear and was flashing her cooch all over the flight is right I bet

9/12/2007 4:07:17 PM

haha I bet she was


she wanted to join the mile high club


I woulda helped her out

9/12/2007 4:07:53 PM

^

9/12/2007 4:08:51 PM

until she whipped out a dick that was bigger than yours.

9/12/2007 4:16:48 PM

I do a fair amount of flying and sometimes i wonder where all the strippers are going

every other girl has on 4" heels and a shorter than short mini with her tits hangin out

9/12/2007 4:18:42 PM

i don't see why everyone is attacking the flight attendant. it looks to me like he was just trying to preserve the family friendly atmosphere of a southwest flight, i.e. doing his job. personally though i wouldn't care if she were flashing everyone, it would probably be a good distraction from that man-face.

9/12/2007 6:25:06 PM

BARREL SHOT.

But seriously, the flight attendant doesn't like trannies. Is that a crime?

9/12/2007 6:26:52 PM

I can't see anyone, super-slutty or not, wearing that skirt without undies. Thong, maybe, but no undies at all ... I really can't see anyone doing that.

9/12/2007 6:51:30 PM

^ A roommate in college told me that the only time she went comando was if she was wearing a short skirt. I don't get it but there are plenty of examples in hollywood of girls doing the same thing.

9/12/2007 7:12:38 PM