Fashion: Glamour in the Friendly Skies

A few weeks before G-Man's arrival, The Boy was constantly working late and my hormones were on overdrive. I ended up with an HBO Go membership and started watching movies at night to kill some time. Enter Sully, a preggo's dream. There's no real danger because you already know the ending (calling it The Miracle on the Hudson is a solid tip off) but there's plenty of emotional highs and lows that offer a nice little outlet for weeping. 

The hormonal weepies were fantastic, but I also started thinking about airline uniforms and vaguely remembering that they used to be super, super glamorous. That made me wonder if any current airlines had the chic, gorgeous uniforms that we remember from the 60s and 70s. After some cursory research, it turned out that it's really common for airlines to grab publicity by partnering with one of their nation's top designers to launch unique uniforms.


Enter these modern belles from Virgin Blue at top and the ladies from Etihad Airlines below. 

Lest the ladies have all the fun, China's Hainan Airlines will have you looking fab no matter your gender.

All of the above seem to be trying to recapture the mystique of those early years, when flying was a classy, exciting fancy affair. Stewardesses were young gals on the move with their nifty hats, dangling scarves, and always impractical shoes. I'm sure that the work was insanely hard, but these gals look cool as a cucumber doing it:

  

Are you a good flyer or are you a Puke-y Nervous Nellie like me?

Sources: More great info from CNN here and here.