SKYGIRLS: A Photographic History of the Airline Stewardess

摘要

You won't like this book unless you like airplanes, period photos, history or women. For admirers of all four, especially those old enough to recall when flying was fun, Skygirls is a visual feast, a slow journey through our past, when airline travel was glamorous. Promotional material for Skygirls acknowledges that stewardesses in the airlines' glory days coped with "low pay, long hours and leering passengers," and that theirs was "one of the most sexist careers a young woman could pursue." The photos begin in the 1920s, when a stewardess had to be a registered nurse. They continue through the hedonistic, swinging "Coffee, tea or me?" 1960s, when I briefly worked for Pacific Southwest Airlines, whose stewardesses are prominently featured in this volume.