Why do people still expect you to dress nicely while flying?

[Anonymous]

Slovenly or bust - my airplane travel attire theme, always.

[Anonymous]

I think OP is referring to all the ink being spilled about dressing up on flights. I recall years ago Joan Rivers writing a scathing opinion piece in USA Today (I think?) that you have to dress nicely to fly. And I’ve seen other articles recently in Condé Nast, Insider, etc.

I fly regularly for work and vacation and I don’t care what anyone wears, although every time I see someone boarding in booty shorts and a cut off shirt, I’m mostly wore about how cold they’re going to get. I guess I get cold easily but I think airplanes are frigid.

And for the posters worrying about people changing in bathrooms, many airlines provide PJs in first class on international long haul flights, so changing in the bathroom is par for the course. And some bathrooms are quite large. For example, some of Cathay Pacific’s planes have business class bathrooms that are easily three times the size of a usual airplane bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Just wear clothing and shoes. Wear clean clothing. Make sure your bum, boobs (even moobs), and feet are covered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is referring to all the ink being spilled about dressing up on flights. I recall years ago Joan Rivers writing a scathing opinion piece in USA Today (I think?) that you have to dress nicely to fly. And I’ve seen other articles recently in Condé Nast, Insider, etc.

I fly regularly for work and vacation and I don’t care what anyone wears, although every time I see someone boarding in booty shorts and a cut off shirt, I’m mostly wore about how cold they’re going to get. I guess I get cold easily but I think airplanes are frigid.

And for the posters worrying about people changing in bathrooms, many airlines provide PJs in first class on international long haul flights, so changing in the bathroom is par for the course. And some bathrooms are quite large. For example, some of Cathay Pacific’s planes have business class bathrooms that are easily three times the size of a usual airplane bathroom.

Care to share any recent links on this topic with people more fashionable than a deceased plastic surgery sideshow act who sold costume bee pins on QVC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can think of 20 comfortable, stretchy outfits in my closet that are not sweatpants and a hoodie. The most comfortable pair of pants I own are a pair of extremely stretch ponte knit *trousers* that look and feel amazing. Some of us know how to be simultaneously comfortable and polished.

I don’t care at all what other people wear on a flight—never have, never will. But I will always dress nicely (and comfortably), and if that makes you feel insecure, that’s on you, not me.

+1

[Anonymous]

Dressing up? What are you talking about? Nobody dresses up for this anymore. People wear comfortable clothes, whatever that personally means to them. Nobody cares what you’re wearing as long as it’s clean and you don’t take your shoes off on the flight.

[Anonymous]

Op, you care more than you think if you have to start a thread about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is referring to all the ink being spilled about dressing up on flights. I recall years ago Joan Rivers writing a scathing opinion piece in USA Today (I think?) that you have to dress nicely to fly. And I’ve seen other articles recently in Condé Nast, Insider, etc.

I fly regularly for work and vacation and I don’t care what anyone wears, although every time I see someone boarding in booty shorts and a cut off shirt, I’m mostly wore about how cold they’re going to get. I guess I get cold easily but I think airplanes are frigid.

And for the posters worrying about people changing in bathrooms, many airlines provide PJs in first class on international long haul flights, so changing in the bathroom is par for the course. And some bathrooms are quite large. For example, some of Cathay Pacific’s planes have business class bathrooms that are easily three times the size of a usual airplane bathroom.

Care to share any recent links on this topic with people more fashionable than a deceased plastic surgery sideshow act who sold costume bee pins on QVC?

I mean, sure.

April 2022 -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/airport-plane-dress-code/

Jan 2020 -
https://www.insider.com/why-you-should-always-dress-up-on-a-plane-2016-7

Dec 2017 -
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-you-should-always-dress-up-to-fly

Sept 2014
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2014/09/06/what-happened-glamour-air-travel/D2tH33b60WzmIkKPmUQMBP/story.html

I don’t get the hostility. Again, idgaf what people wear on airplanes, but I’m aware of a contingent of people who do.

[Anonymous]

Everyone wears sweatpants and sweater on a flight.

[Anonymous]

I don't judge others cause what they wear is none of my business, but the last time I flew I stepped it up and realized I felt better because I was presenting a better more pulled together me to the world, so I will probably continue doing that moving forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think OP is referring to all the ink being spilled about dressing up on flights. I recall years ago Joan Rivers writing a scathing opinion piece in USA Today (I think?) that you have to dress nicely to fly. And I’ve seen other articles recently in Condé Nast, Insider, etc.

I fly regularly for work and vacation and I don’t care what anyone wears, although every time I see someone boarding in booty shorts and a cut off shirt, I’m mostly wore about how cold they’re going to get. I guess I get cold easily but I think airplanes are frigid.

And for the posters worrying about people changing in bathrooms, many airlines provide PJs in first class on international long haul flights, so changing in the bathroom is par for the course. And some bathrooms are quite large. For example, some of Cathay Pacific’s planes have business class bathrooms that are easily three times the size of a usual airplane bathroom.

Care to share any recent links on this topic with people more fashionable than a deceased plastic surgery sideshow act who sold costume bee pins on QVC?

I mean, sure.

April 2022 -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/airport-plane-dress-code/

Jan 2020 -
https://www.insider.com/why-you-should-always-dress-up-on-a-plane-2016-7

Dec 2017 -
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/why-you-should-always-dress-up-to-fly

Sept 2014
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2014/09/06/what-happened-glamour-air-travel/D2tH33b60WzmIkKPmUQMBP/story.html

I don’t get the hostility. Again, idgaf what people wear on airplanes, but I’m aware of a contingent of people who do.

Here's one from August. I gave hime the mental GTFOH

"Still, while the experience of travel may seem demeaning — hourslong lines for check-in, security and baggage at facilities like Delta’s Terminal 4 at Kennedy International Airport, a bare-bones cavern where the sole place to sit is on the floor — is that a good reason to meet insult with insult and dress accordingly?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/style/endless-lines-baffling-delays-crocs-for-days.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone wears sweatpants and sweater on a flight.

I don't but I don't like or own sweat pants and I don't like sweaters so don't own many. I wear leggings and a tshirt with a jean jacket I can take off or leave on if I am cold.

[Anonymous]

The only thing I care about is that peoples clothes don’t smell and that they are covered where they should be covered. I flew to Mexico sitting next to a woman in her twenties wearing a dress that barely covered her crotch. When she had to squeeze by us to go to the bathroom of course the dress lifted another inch or so and my face was basically a quarter inch from her underwear. Very gross. Have consideration for the face that you are packed in like lemmings with other humans. And don’t wear perfume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can think of 20 comfortable, stretchy outfits in my closet that are not sweatpants and a hoodie. The most comfortable pair of pants I own are a pair of extremely stretch ponte knit *trousers* that look and feel amazing. Some of us know how to be simultaneously comfortable and polished.

I don’t care at all what other people wear on a flight—never have, never will. But I will always dress nicely (and comfortably), and if that makes you feel insecure, that’s on you, not me.

Agreed. OP doesn't know what's out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care what other people wear while flying.

I wear leisure wear geberally though fur shorter flights I sometimes where “real” clothes because it makes me feel more together when I land.

Same here as long as it doesn't smell.