Everyone can agree that standards of dress aren’t what they used to be. Where they actually lie at the moment is a more prickly sociological question — one that recently prompted some preflight turbulence between a 23-year-old college student and Southwest Airlines.

Earlier this summer, Kyla Ebbert, a student at San Diego Mesa College, was escorted off a Southwest airplane by a customer-service supervisor who told her that her outfit was inappropriate. The ensemble in question? “A white denim miniskirt, high-heel sandals, and a turquoise summer sweater over a tank top over a bra,” according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Kyla Ebbert was asked to change this outfit or disembark from a Southwest Airlines flight, she says. (Crissy Pascual / Union-Tribune)

Ms. Ebbert eventually made it back onto the plane, where she covered her legs with an airline blanket, but only after putting up a fight.

On Wednesday a columnist for the Union-Tribune recruited some “fashion advisers” to weigh in on Ms. Ebbert’s outfit, which she obligingly donned for the newspaper. Their verdict: “nothing you don’t see on a college campus.” —John Gravois