Jezebel: flight attendants

Can You Match The Stewardess Uniform To The Airline?

Dodai — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT

After we posted about airline hostesses of yesteryear, someone alerted us to UniformFreak.com. Cliff Muskiet works for KLM and collects everything airline-related, including uniforms. One day he hopes to have a museum! In the meantime, all of the fun and colorful stewardess outfits of past and present inspired us to do a quiz. Can you guess where a lady offering you tea is from just by the color and cut of her company-issued garments? Find out by taking the quiz after the jump.

To see if you're correct, use your mouse to highlight the hidden text after "Answer:"

Uniform A.
1. Indonesian Air
2. Orient Thai
3. Cathay Pacific

Answer: Orient Thai

Uniform B.
1. Delta Airlines
2. KLM
3. Hooters Air

Answer: Hooters

Uniform C.
1. Emirates
2. Singapore Air
3. Indonesian Air

Answer: Singapore

Uniform D.
1. Continental
2. Lion Air
3. Kenya Airways

Answer: Kenya Airways

Uniform E.
1. Emirates
2. Kuwait Air
3. Indonesian Air

Answer: Emirates

Uniform F.
1. TransAsia
2. Cathay Pacific
3. China Airlines

Answer: China Airlines

Uniform G.
1. Virgin Nigeria
2. Varig
3. Royal Brunei

Answer: Royal Brunei

Uniform H.
1. SilkAir
2. Air Tanzania
3. Hawaiian Airlines

Answer: Hawaiian Airlines

Uniform I.
1. Air Phillipines
2. Air Tahiti Nui
3. Thai Airways

Answer: Thai Airways

Uniform J.
1. Luftansa
2. Air Phillipines
3. Sabena

Answer: Luftansa

Uniform K.

1. Horizon Airlines
2. Air Tahiti Nui
3. Air Rhodesia

Answer: Air Tahiti Nui

Uniform L.

1. ANA All Nippon Airways
2. Cathay Pacific
3. Bangkok Airways

Answer: Cathay Pacific

[Uniform Freak]

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Flying Foxes

Dodai — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:45:00 EDT

Wired has a story and slide show about airline hostesses of yesteryear. In 1930, Ellen Church became the world's first airline stewardess, working a Boeing flight from Oakland, California, to Chicago. The flight took 20 hours and involved 13 stops. Church was a registered nurse who later became a pilot, but the idea of having nurses onboard caught on. Except times being what they were, the nurses were "sky girls." They had to be single, under 25, no taller than 5-feet-4, and weigh no more than 115 pounds. By the '60s, stewardesses were basically hot-pants and go-go boot wearing model/waitresses. My mom was a TWA flight attendant back in the day (the gloves and miniskirt were mandatory) and she says, "It was loads of fun. We were like celebrities. But we hated the fact that they weighed us once a month. You couldn't be over 135 lbs." [Wired, Wired]

Fly The Friendly Skies

dodai — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:45:00 EST

Flight attendants in Thailand are demanding that a new soap opera, The Air Hostess Wars, be taken off the air after three episodes because they find the show offensive and demeaning. After watching a clip, one can see their point, though the show appears to be, in a word, awesome. Noppadol Thaungthong, a Thai Airways flight attendant leading the protest says, "It's all about sex and air hostesses beating each other up in the cabin because of love and jealousy. This kind of thing never happens." But it certainly makes for must-see TV! Click the picture for a video clip; it's in Thai but hot pilots, face-slapping and catfights need no subtitles. [Guardian]

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