(CNN) American Airlines has apologized to a woman who says she was humiliated after being told she couldn't fly unless she covered up her romper.

Latisha "Tisha" Rowe said she and her son were boarding a flight from Kingston, Jamaica, to Miami on June 30 when flight attendants asked them to step off the plane to talk, she told CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Thursday.

Rowe said a female flight attendant asked her several times whether she had a jacket, and when she asked why, the woman told her that "you are not getting on the plane dressed like that."

Rowe was wearing a strapless romper, so her legs, shoulders and arms were visible, but she said that nothing inappropriate was exposed.

"To me, that felt like a slap in the face, because I felt appropriately dressed," Rowe said. "But I'm being told indirectly, in front of my son that -- you know, it felt like 'you look like a slut, so let's fix this.' "

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