Historic Airline Uniforms (or women in uniforms) 6 pictures

accidently found ths site and wanted to post some pictures


Japan Airlines


SAS 1962 (Scandinavia)


Pacific Southwest Airlines


Gulf Air 1970's (Arabian Gulf)


Viva Air (Spain)


United Airlines 1940

http://www.rhydin.org/uniform/airline/airline.htm

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Bet she remembers it.

Never trust an airline that uses a serial comma.

From the grinder at bootcamp in San Diego we could see them fly out all day long and wished we were on one of them.

or to ride the train or to just otherwise in general go out in public.

So sad we've lost those times.

Yep, those days are loooooooooong gone. Loooooooooong gone.

So sad.

That's what they call it on What Not To Wear.

I actually saw a couple of teenagers at the mall a couple of weeks ago in literally pajamas. I mean what the hell?

I blame the so called 'greatest generation'. The grew up in the depression, then fought for their lives in world war 2, and had no energy to raise their children properly. ;)

and their Sunday preachers wearing polo shirts - fucking POLO SHIRTS for christ's sake.

)x

I wish people would dress more... graciously when they are in public. But, after the Boomers, we're me-obsessed, so there ya go.

If I'm gonna have to wait in long lines to be prodded by security and crammed into an airline seat for several hours you can bet I'm gonna wear something comfortable.

The stupidest thing I've ever worn is a neck tie.

Yep, in the 40s they had height and weight requirements, and you had to look like a model or a high priced call girl. Height and weight requirements were challenged as sexist in lawsuits.

I remember when Southwest Airlines started in 72 and they wore orange hot pants, gold t shirts, and a scarf and white patent leather go go boots.


My mom interviewed with American Airlines in the early 40s, and they wanted to take her, so she passed the "Hot number" test. But her Mom wouldn't let her go do it. Grandma's brother was a test pilot, so she just KNEW mom would die in a plane crash. (Test pilot didn't either.)



Hmmm, maybe that's why she was so grumpy for the next 60 years?? :scared:

...is go back to 1962 and fly SAS. Repeatedly. Wow!

where's Pan Am? I used to love them.

"Good morning folks. Welcome to Pan Am, the world's most experienced airline. Please fasten your seat belts, we're about to have another experience."

Had dinner at a former Pan Am cabin attendant's home last night.
The old gal's still got a lot of life left in her.
;-)

Braniff's "Fly Me" campaign.
Sexist, yeah. But oh so sexy.
"I'm Bambi. Fly ME!"

TWA's paper dresses.
Only worn inflight.
I remember the cabin attendants going in the galley, pulling the curtain, and shimmying out of the uni and into THE PAPER DRESS.
Don't ask me HOW I knew this.
;-)

At least one guy (ALL guys then) on the cockpit crew brought a pair of scissors along.
"By God, OUR gals will have THE SHORTEST skirts."
Passengers loved it.
So did we.
:-)

Here is a Braniff's Air Strip ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKiVCkE0dDw


And apparently people are searching for the paper dresses
http://wantitnow.ebay.com/airline-memorabilia-paper-dresses_W0QQadidZ5650554178

In the '70s I think:

"We really move our tails for you"

I first flew in 1967 (to and around Europe), and there was plenty of room (only 5 seats across, 2 on one side, 3 on the other, maybe 35" seat pitch), good food (We had our first-ever filet mignon coming back from Amsterdam to JFK), and solicitous flight attendants.

When our flight from London to Oslo was delayed TWO HOURS, British European Airways took us into one of the bars where they fed us free sandwiches and tea.

Even flying to Japan in 1977, each coach passenger received a meal tray about half the size of the one shown in the top photo.

Flying began to deteriorate after deregulation, but it REALLY went down hill in the 1990s. Sure, you have seat-back TVs with movies and video games nowadays, but I'd gladly trade them for roomier seating where you can actually straighten your legs. In fact, for the first sixty or so years of the airline industry, there was no in-flight entertainment, not even movies till the late 1960s. We looked out the window and read books.

Pretty much ruined my career.
OK, not 'ruined', but it went from damned good to...what?...'tolerable'?

Alfred E. Kahn was the 'father' of airline deregulation.
And under Jimmy Carter.
:-(

Innumerable careers destroyed.
He is (was) the one person in the entire world that I would have cheerfully BLOWN HIS F*CKING HEAD OFF, if there would have been no recriminations.
Bastard.

About the only good thing about being short is that I have enough room to stretch in an airline seat, or stand up in my seat place and not bang my head on the lights on a 757. I can even fit in horizontally with room to spare -- isn't it 15 inches or something across the seat for ass room???

I'm five foot three BTW. But because people are so large now, it's still not fun being that jammed in with that many people.

What's bad is when you're next to someone spilling over in all directions -- that is hell.

Once I was in an aisle seat on a 3 across. The elderly couple next to me looked out the window and saw their luggage on the belt and it was going someplace else, like off the plane or something. They raised hell (as they should), and I spent the entire flight time with an employee standing/leaning over me apologizing. So I had a man's gut, bottom half of tie, and man's right arm extended over me in my line of sight the whole time. Bleaaah.

I'm so old I remember when they had youth discount cards and Alexander Calder painted planes wild colors for Braniff.

My first flight in '71 was a $90 round trip ticket to Houston-Kansas City because I was going to music camp at Lawrence. Lots of great memories!!! :evilgrin:

were designed and fabulous!

i love teh psa unis and the pan-am -- viva ait is fantastic.

but they are all really cool.

She is also a BIG union (AFA) leader.

:web:

hubba hubba!

and hat are they eating on JAL?
that's the biggest sushi I've ever seen!

Christian Lacroix Air France

For inspiration, Lacroix drew on his fascination with stewardess style from when he took his first flight from Pairs to Corsica as a young boy. He still remembers thinking the stewardesses were "beautiful, like so many war heroines. They were a bit like nurses, but I had a very aristocratic image of them."

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Delta Air Lines Richard Tyler



http://www.dexigner.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5990
"My goal with the design of the new uniforms was to evoke the time when air travel was glamorous and sophisticated, yet with a contemporary look and feel," said Richard Tyler. "The challenge of designing a uniform for air travel is to ensure that it is practical as well as stylish, and I'm proud to have met that challenge, working with Delta to create a look that blends modern comfort and wearability with refined style."

Seriously, that black dress/coat combo with the deep red belt is the classiest realistically wearable nice dress outfit I've seen in ages!!! You know, stuff normal people might wear?


Me, I'm saving my pennies for tummy liposuction to get into that one!!!!

Here are te rest of Lacroix pictures

http://www.linternaute.com/femmes/actu/05/0411air-france.shtml
http://www.luxe-magazine.com/default.php?FCT=A&A=689

I absolutely love the United 1940 uniforms.

Upon first look, I thought it was Aer Lingus. Guess the green unis fooled me.

Thank you.