Flight attendant fashion is constantly changing. How could it not, when narrow aisles on airplanes were seen as fashion catwalks for a long time. When the first commercial flights appeared in the 1950s, flying was not just a journey from point A to point B, but a flight was a vacation in itself. The role of flight attendants was equally glorified. In the book Up in the Air, author Betty Riegel revealed how they were expected to have the looks of supermodels, the skills of housewives and the skills of lifeguards. Let's take a look at the fashion of flight attendants through time.
Flight attendants apply to ambassadors of airline companies, who represent with their contagious good will, neatness and uniform. The uniform of the flight attendants has therefore always been one of the key factors and that's all since the advent of the first commercial flights. It is therefore no wonder that aviation fashion has also been very lively and sometimes turbulent throughout history. There were transitions unique catwalks and in a way they still are today.
Uniforms of British Airway flight attendants in the 1950s.
let's fly in what clothes flight attendants have walked on them in the now sixty-year history of the commercial life among the clouds.
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The fashionable beginnings of flight attendant uniforms date back to the 1950s.
A typical image of a flight attendant in the 1950s.
Hostesses of Pakistani Airways at the company's premises in London in 1957.
Hostesses of the same airline, i.e. Pakistani Airways, two years later. Pants were replaced by knee-length skirts.
The uniform of flight attendants and other flight personnel of Thai International Airlines reflected Western business fashion in the 1950s.
The classic British uniform was designed by Hardy Amies for British European Airways flight attendants in the 1960s.
This is how a Pan Am Air stewardess brings a baby on board at Bulltoft Airport in Sweden in 1950.
Flight attendants of the airline company Icelandic Air with the Douglas DC-8 aircraft model once in 1960.
The first flight attendants at British Airways wore gloves in addition to their classy skirts and caps.
The 1960s began to indicate shorter women's skirts compared to those from the very beginnings in the 1950s (see next photo).
Flight attendant skirts in the fifties. Long and elegant.
The 70 years have seen a major departure from standard flight attendant fashion. A Southwest Airlines representative from Texas said in 1973 that in interviews for the job of flight attendants they evaluate them from the feet up.
The 70 years have seen a major departure from standard flight attendant fashion. A Southwest Airlines representative from Texas said in 1973 that in interviews for the job of flight attendants they evaluate them from the feet up.
Pan American Airlines flight attendant and her degree (1973).
Pan Am flight attendants in 1970.
A Pan Am flight attendant in action on a Boeing 747 in 1970.
Innez Matthews, Irma Reid and Cindy Medford (from left to right) were the first black British women to pose like this in their uniforms in 1970. They were employed by an independent airline.
United Airlines flight attendants were dressed by Hollywood tailor Jean Louis in the early 70s.
Gulf Air uniform in 1973 (design: Joy Stokes).
Fashion on board Virgin Atlantic in 1999 (design: John Rocha).
British Airways today.
Video flight through the history of flight attendant fashion:
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