United Airlines bars girls in leggings from boarding flight: they're "not properly clothed"

[jerwin]

There’s a time and a place for that discussion.

The epic "tights are/aren't pants" discussion!

Since this cropped up in another topic, I decided to try forking it off here: It’s one of those phenomena I am surprised that there is so much controversy about netside. Any discussion of things that people should/shouldn’t wear seems uncomfortably like fashion-policing to me. But why it interests me is that there are often lots of double-standards at play which I don’t see unpacked. Such as why are there such strong reactions of “people shouldn’t need to see X” about some clothing trends,…