As I understand it, I should dress respectably on my next flight state side. Can somebody please fill me in on what this entails in the new Golden Age of Travel?
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hahahaha, this is the most bored stay-at-home wife policy I’ve seen from current admin.
I had to check but DOT Sec. Sean P. Duffy looks like a middle-aged guy.
There is no such thing as “respectable dressing”. Wake up to yourself!
You in suit, top hat and tails, your missus in a white hood and red cloak and make sure you are white.
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Will smoking on board be allowed again?
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For all this administration’s fury about wokery this directive is the wokest thing I’ve read in a long time. 
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Having worked in an airport, I did witness some passengers turning up looking a right state. Some looking like they were still in their pyjamas just got out of bed, or girls jetting off to a warm destination already in their bikini top and tiny shorts.
Firstly dress so people sitting next to you aren’t like WTF! And second dress for a possible emergency evacuation.
I only second the dress for a possible emergency evacuation.
I try to do my best but the realities are 24+h of travel, the stressful commute to airport, running like an idiot in an intermediate airport to catch next airplane because delays, airports where you have to pass security once again for connecting flights, finding a lounge closed (no shower), long flights, long passport queues…and you want me to look sharp? FFS!!!
Even in perfect Switzerland I made an effort to not sweat while pulling my cabin and 20kg baggage to the airport. Deliberately slow movements to the tram and catch the direct train from Aarau to the ZH airport. Arrive to ZH HB, train conductor announces train is cancelled and we have to change to another one…the objective changed from not sweating to not missing the flight. Sorry fellow passengers.
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Don’t be daft. But dress in something that you can go down a slide in without getting friction burns (not shorts or a bikini) and then won’t freeze to death in once you’re off the plane.
I expect friction burns from a slide may be the least traumatic of your injuries in a plane crash.
A friend of mine has to wear a suit like the one I showed every time he travels to and from his place of work.
If you are flying with a budget airline the trick is to wear as much of your holiday wardrobe as possible so you can avoid paying for checked baggage.
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Oil rig worker?
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Western clothing. Simple as.
Turn up in anything looking vaguely ethnic, from ANY ethnicity, and you’ll have a few extra “random” checks.
Maybe in the US, but not elsewhere.
During the so-called golden age of travel people dressed up because they could and because they dressed up every day.
Flying is no longer special and no longer for only the elites.
MAGA hat, Trump Bible in hand and Trump sneakers on your feet at the minimum. Bonus if you wear a “Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president” shirt. 
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I don’t like planes at the best of times and make a point of watching the safety demonstration every time because I’m the idiot who’d probably inflate the lifejacket whilst still inside the plane 
As a child I remember relatives going on holiday to resorts in Spain and those photos of everyone in their finery stepping down from the plane you could get as souvenirs. It made couples look like Taylor and Burton when they were disembarking. One of my cousins was pictured in a 2 piece suit, hat, stilletos and white kid gloves on as if she was off to a wedding. Today’s passengers are like tramps in comparison!
