The irony.
This gets you kicked off these days...
While this was the standard uniform decades ago...
So I thought the previous generation(s) were supposed to be the prudes? Well, goes to show, it takes generations to build a fortune, one to ruin it, and many others to clean up the mess. <<< taking pot shots now.
Why do I sense the girl in the front of this picture doesn't work at SWA anymore but the one coming up the aisle does?
As to this situation, what the hell can you do? Damned if you do and wouldn't have been damned if you didn't unless of course it blew up, then you're pretty much damned but nobody would've known your damn mistake.
I kicked a passenger off just once when i was a Captain. It was the first leg out. By the third leg I realized the problem was my FA, not the passengers. But how do you know? You don't. But it'd probably help if we took up an Israeli styled "look for a terrorist" and not a "look for a bomb" mentality in both the government and private side of this crippled industry.