Beautiful Flight Attendant Uniforms Around the World From the 1970s
Pan-Am
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We’ve come a long way since the early days of flying, from the rough-ride commercial airliners in the early 1900s to the glamorous, smoke-fogged flights of the 1960s. Continue reading »
“View from the Top”: A Historical Look at The Beautiful Stewardesses of The 1960s-1980s
Pacific Southwest Airlines employee in mini-skirts and go-go boots.
The flight attendant occupation took permanent shape in the 1930s as “women’s work,” that is, work not only predominately performed by women but also defined as embodying white, middle-class ideals of femininity. Continue reading »
“Flight Attendants” by Brian Finke
Photographer Brian Finke spent nearly two years traversing the friendly skies, following the life of flight attendants in the air and on the ground, from Delta and Hawaiian Air, to Hooters Air, Southwest, Air France, British Airways, Air Asia, and dozens more. His images of flight attendants waving, applying makeup and deboarding plans while smiling appear as if they were ripped from an advertisement in a glossy magazine. Continue reading »
