Conservative: Fly the Friendly Skies, but Dress Right

United Airlines’ insistence that three girls dress appropriately before boarding a flight unleashed a social-media storm, but Nicole Gelinas at City Journal says the airline is right not to back down. For starters, the girls weren’t paying customers but “travelers flying for free on United’s passes for employees and family members,” and the company has a strict dress code “for such perk flyers.” Gelinas calls the issue an “anodyne employer-employee matter,” but “an important one.” After all, United is “asking off-duty employees to uphold standards of dress that society, in general, should observe . . . If we can see the top band of your underpants or the straps of your bra, you’re doing something wrong.”