The Inside story of how to be a 1950’s Stewardess
Photos by Life Photographer Peter Stackpole.
“The rather odd education that the girls get in these images is preparing them for one of the most coveted careers open to young women today. They all want to be airline stewardesses.
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The job they want does not pay very well however - only $255 to $355 a month!!
The life is irregular and the opportunities for promotion are small. But the chance to fly, to see the world and to meet all sorts of interesting people – mostly the kind of men who can afford to travel by plane – gives the job real glamour.
In the US – airlines employ 8,200 stewardesses. The positions are so eagerly sought that only three to five out of every hundred girls who apply to major airlines are taken.
In 1958 – Life magazine went to Stewardess School in Dallas Texas, and offered a revealing insight into the training, deportment, beauty schooling and sisterly camaraderie which resulted.
Photos by Life Photographer Peter Stackpole.
“The rather odd education that the girls get in these images is preparing them for one of the most coveted careers open to young women today. They all want to be airline stewardesses.
Read te full article at:
http://glamourdaze.com/2014/09/glamour-girls-of-the-air-air-stewardess-school-1958.html
