60s airline flight attendants are the new flappers

[qwantz]

Oliver suggested the subject line connection when I sent him these pictures and I believe it is true! They both scratch the same oddly idealized, unattainable itch:

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[finkenstein]

I want a bubble helmet SO BAD

[qwantz]

ME TOO

[elizardbits]

ME TOO TOO. Sadly the only one I found on ebay is part of a 90-piece collection going for 250k.

SADFACE.

[dracunculus]

They should have mentioned the Vicki Barr series of books on that site! They came out beginning in 1947 and featured a young girl living the ultra-glamorous (!) life of an airline stewardess, solving mysteries while flirting with her handsome pilot. My grandmother had some of the books so I read them as a kid (probably in the early eighties). I remember thinking it was sort of weird that Vicki was so very keen on becoming a stewardess, but overall I liked the books. She fought crime!

[lafinjack]

But is there a '60s Airline Flight Attendant dictionary? I think not!

[callanhead]

her expression makes it seem like even she is unsure why she's wearing it.
the past certainly had its moments!

[pigeonpillow]

asian airlines are keeping this shit Alive. i had a 14-hour layover at Incheon International, Korea, and watching the stewardesses walk around in smiley bizarrely clad little packs was Amazing, as was brushing my teeth next to them in the impeccable bathrooms.