Fashion is often controversial, spicy and provocative. But when you go to the airport for a flight, it’s unlikely that you want to make a statement, or strut down a runway. (Get it? Fashion runway? Airport runway?)
Usually, you’d just want to get the flight over and done with. But that privilege wasn’t given to one of South Korea’s most popular DJs, DJ Soda.
All Over a Pair of Pants
Clad in popular streetwear brand RipNDip’s “F*ck You” sweatpants, Soda (real name Hwang So-hee) was on an American Airlines flight to Los Angeles from New York City. After checking in and boarding the plane, she was “enjoying [her] welcome drink” in business class when she was pulled off the plane with no explanation.
The airline staff then informed her that her sweatpants were inappropriate and offensive, and that she was barred from the plane and needed to catch the next flight.
Soda, however, had an important meeting in LA later that day, so she pleaded to be let on the flight. According to her, she tried to ask to change, but her request was denied.
In the end, she had to take off her pants in front of all of the airline staff, who even “sarcastically commented that [she] could have taken off [her] pants earlier” while still barring her from the flight.
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She ended up being let back on the flight wearing her pants inside out “after an hour of delay”, reporting that she felt “mortified” and was “trembling in fear for the next 6 hours”.
Backlash and Response
“In my 8 years of touring, I have never experienced or been treated unfairly, especially in a country that is known for its freedom of speech and individuality,” she wrote on her Instagram post.
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The comments to her Instagram posts and Twitter thread have all been generally supportive of her and indignant at the treatment she faced, some even linking it with anti-Asian discrimination.
American Airlines’ code states that they “prohibit offensive clothing”, and issued the below official statement about the incident:
“During the boarding process for American Airlines Flight 306 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, our team members informed Ms. So-hee of our policies and provided her the opportunity to change out of clothing displaying explicit language. The customer complied with requests and was allowed to continue travel, as planned, to Los Angeles International Airport.”
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