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Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants

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“In her new chic outfit, she looks like anything but a stewardess working. But work she does. Hard, too. And you hardly know it.” So read the text of a 1969 newspaper advertisement for Delta Airlines featuring a picture of a brightly smiling blond stewardess striding confidently down the aisle of an airplane cabin to deliver a meal. From the moment the first stewardesses took flight in 1930, flight attendants became glamorous icons of femininity. For decades, ai… More >>

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants

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Alluring Flight Attendant Adult Halloween Costume Size M/L

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Alluring Flight Attendant Costume. This shimmering blue stewardess ensemble is first class! Strut down any aisle in this zip-front long sleeved high neck crop top and very mini bottom. Size M/L…. More >>

Alluring Flight Attendant Adult Halloween Costume Size M/L

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Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant

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Get ready for takeoff. The life of the flight attendant, a.k.a., stewardess, was supposedly once one of glamour, exotic travel and sexual freedom, as recently depicted in such films as Catch Me If You Can and View From the Top. The nostalgia for the beautiful, carefree and ever helpful stewardess perhaps reveals a yearning for simpler times, but nonetheless does not square with the difficult, demanding and sometimes dangerous job of today’s flight attendants. Based … More >>

Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant

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