Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy recently asked a question so obvious it feels radical: Could we please stop dressing like we’re rolling out of bed when we board an airplane? His gentle plea (“maybe go back to an era where we didn’t wear our pajamas to the airport”) has been met, predictably, with eye-rolling and lectures about “comfort” and “my body, my choice.” Yet Duffy is not demanding white gloves and three-piece suits. He is simply asking us to remember that a plane is a public space, not a private dorm room, and that the way we. . .

