Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms ....a site for you

2009-09-09 Thread Laurie Taylor
@indra.com] On Behalf Of Melody Watts Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 1:25 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms a site for you Here's Pan Am's photo history bit on uniforms:   http://www.panamair.org/History/uniforms.htm   looks like some

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms

2009-09-02 Thread albertcat
I just found NASM. *** Yes! Here's a color photo of a replica of the uniforms I showed you in the pics from United Air Lines. http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal102/americabyair/abaImage.cfm?webID=210.p10 MMa lovely green...NOT! Anyway, it's very "deco". I hate

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms ....a site for you

2009-09-02 Thread Liz Herman
I'm not sure who posted first, but I just noticed the thread. The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum has had an exhibit for about two years now that covers (in part) the beginnings of the commercial air industry in the US ("America by Air"). I'm not sure how close up the photos get,

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms

2009-09-02 Thread Cin
Thanks, Lynn. I just found NASM. National Air & Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian will all get you the URL. United donated a huge pile of early memorabilia. I remember that there's a green attendant's uniform there, but cant get good pictures of it. Not good enough to make a pattern f

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms found a bunch of photos

2009-09-02 Thread Cin
melody, thank you ! The CNAC thing is a party in 2 weeks. It's a reunion for the (mostly) Chinese & American teams that worked in the Pacific theater before the US joined WWII. People from other nationalities were involved, too. www.CNAC.org has more about the event. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar..

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms ....a site for you

2009-09-02 Thread Lynn Downward
When the Smithsonian took some of their wonderful items on the road, they had a room of airplane memorabelia, including uniforms and part of an airplane and a space capsule!. I cannot remember which company was (very) well represented (United? TWA?), but you might lookat the Smithsonian's website t

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms found a bunch of photos

2009-09-02 Thread Melody Watts
Ok here's a bonanza of info, scroll all the way down to the bottom. they go alphabetically the United States is on the bottom, has some from 1930s'. Interesting, one shows gals in uniforms that look like Nurses uni's ,as being an RN was a requirement early on to be a stew. Sounds like a  kind of

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms ....a site for you

2009-09-02 Thread albertcat
looks like someof the B&W are early Alas, it looks like the earliest photo is from the early '50's. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms ....a site for you

2009-09-02 Thread Melody Watts
Here's Pan Am's photo history bit on uniforms:   http://www.panamair.org/History/uniforms.htm   looks like someof the B&W are early. Will post more as I find them. melody --- On Wed, 9/2/09, Cin wrote: From: Cin Subject: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms To: "h-cost" Date: Wednesday, Se

Re: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms

2009-09-02 Thread albertcat
Lookee http://www.united.com/page/article/0,,3217,00.html http://www.united.com/page/article/0,,3218,00.html -Original Message- From: Cin To: h-cost Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 4:06 pm Subject: [h-cost] 30s flight attendant uniforms My cousin is preside