Product Description

"Stewardess" is a high-flying visual celebration of the era when air travel was chic, and stewardesses were the glamorous, gracious symbols of the international jet set. Taking off with an insightful introduction tracing the history of the air hostess, this stylish book is packed with gorgeous vintage photographs, training and in-flight materials, ads and stewardess ephemera, plus snapshots and reminiscences from stewardesses themselves. A fun and fashionable flight for travelers - without having to check your bags - "Stewardess" pays fitting tribute to being able to maintain perfect poise at 20,000 feet. Welcome aboard.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #399243 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

Coffee, tea or milk...?

A very bland pictorial scrapbook of those jet-set ladies from the past. It could and should have looked much better than this haphazard collection of period company PR photos from the last few decades. There is no contents page, no captions to the photos or even page numbers to give a buyer any sense that this is any more than a quickie production which I expect will hit the mark-down section of most bookstores faster than the publisher's expected.

Despite this there are a few pages that caught my interest. Near the back of the book there are twenty or so of those upright timetables that you could pick up from travel shops years ago. Each has a smilling (naturally) stewardess, a company logo and parts of a jet on the cover.

A much better book is 'Come Fly With Us!: A Global History of the Airline Hostess' which covers exactly the same subject and predictably has the same sort of soft focus posed company photos but at least it has a lot more editorial flair and an imaginative design (even though its published by Collectors Press). Stewardesses by the nature of their job are likely to be seen in most books about airlines and these two offer an interesting pictorial overview of flying: 'Airline Design' and 'Airline: Identity, Design and Culture'. I prefer this last book to the others mentioned.