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Undies On A Plane.
Why there's nothing wrong with stripping down to your underwear on a plane
Feels good doesn’t it? Sliding off your shoes, wiggling your toes and listening to the fizzing of the tonic being poured into that little cup of gin.
Well, OK, so it’s not exactly a night in Tramp with Keith Moon. But shedding your jacket and jumper and sipping that first boozy beverage once the seatbelt signs flash off at the beginning of a long flight can be one of life’s more pleasurable sensations.
So why not take it further and crank the comfort factor up to eleven?
That’s what one passenger did on an Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles last week, stripping down to his boxer shorts to the horror of fellow passenger Lizzie Thompson who decided to live tweet his behaviour.
Frankly, I can’t help but wonder who really won here: the irate passenger sending out reproachful tweets or the partially clad man who, apparently, after grabbing four mini bottles of wine, slept soundly most of the way across the Atlantic.
Though this traveller was a mere dilettante when it comes to going air naturel, a passenger on an Air India Express flight from Dubai to Lucknow last month stripped completely naked. The reasoning isn’t entirely clear though one report suggests it was a form of protest after the passenger (known only as Surendra) came to the realisation that the flight wasn’t going to his intended destination of Pakistan.
As a form of dissent, it would appear that nudity strikes an, ahem, bum note with airlines. But when it comes to relaxation, perhaps it’s time we all loosened up, stretched out and stripped off a little more?
If you’re in economy and you’re travelling overnight, I propose we attempt to create an atmosphere that’s akin to an airborne ‘espirit de corps’. In other words, what happens on board, stays on board.
Many of us have no problem with guests in hotels heading through the lobby to the spa dressed in just an oversized bath robe. And lots of us have no issues at all with reclining in a poolside beach bar wearing nothing but swimming trunks or bikinis in close proximity to others in similarly skimpy attire. So is stripping down to one’s underwear on a flight really such an outrageous affront to our sensibilities?
"Being naked approaches being revolutionary," wrote John Updike. "Going barefoot is mere populism." So slip off that shirt, loosen your belt buckle, lose those socks and do what feels comfy. I, for one, will definitely not be judging you.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/travel/why-theres-nothing-wrong-with-stripping-down-to-your-underwear-on-a-plane/ar-BBU3rG3?ocid=spartandhp
Feels good doesn’t it? Sliding off your shoes, wiggling your toes and listening to the fizzing of the tonic being poured into that little cup of gin.
Well, OK, so it’s not exactly a night in Tramp with Keith Moon. But shedding your jacket and jumper and sipping that first boozy beverage once the seatbelt signs flash off at the beginning of a long flight can be one of life’s more pleasurable sensations.
So why not take it further and crank the comfort factor up to eleven?
That’s what one passenger did on an Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles last week, stripping down to his boxer shorts to the horror of fellow passenger Lizzie Thompson who decided to live tweet his behaviour.
Frankly, I can’t help but wonder who really won here: the irate passenger sending out reproachful tweets or the partially clad man who, apparently, after grabbing four mini bottles of wine, slept soundly most of the way across the Atlantic.
Though this traveller was a mere dilettante when it comes to going air naturel, a passenger on an Air India Express flight from Dubai to Lucknow last month stripped completely naked. The reasoning isn’t entirely clear though one report suggests it was a form of protest after the passenger (known only as Surendra) came to the realisation that the flight wasn’t going to his intended destination of Pakistan.
As a form of dissent, it would appear that nudity strikes an, ahem, bum note with airlines. But when it comes to relaxation, perhaps it’s time we all loosened up, stretched out and stripped off a little more?
If you’re in economy and you’re travelling overnight, I propose we attempt to create an atmosphere that’s akin to an airborne ‘espirit de corps’. In other words, what happens on board, stays on board.
Many of us have no problem with guests in hotels heading through the lobby to the spa dressed in just an oversized bath robe. And lots of us have no issues at all with reclining in a poolside beach bar wearing nothing but swimming trunks or bikinis in close proximity to others in similarly skimpy attire. So is stripping down to one’s underwear on a flight really such an outrageous affront to our sensibilities?
"Being naked approaches being revolutionary," wrote John Updike. "Going barefoot is mere populism." So slip off that shirt, loosen your belt buckle, lose those socks and do what feels comfy. I, for one, will definitely not be judging you.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/travel/why-theres-nothing-wrong-with-stripping-down-to-your-underwear-on-a-plane/ar-BBU3rG3?ocid=spartandhp
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