Fashion in Flight

For more than 85 years the airlines passenger services, hostess, and flight attendant have been dressed in unique outfits to signify their role during the flight. "these often conflicting demands of singularity, diversity, and conformity have created a distinct garment type, one that has penetrated deeply into the social conscience of popular culture while providing fashion designers with remarkable challenges and creative opportunities". These outfits are very distant and eye catching, throughout the years I can see how the skirts are differently are shaped. They started with loose long skirts to now fitted at the knee skirts. For the top part of the uniform it looks slightly similar through out the year, but without looking at the years it was worn I can tell from what era it's from, from just looking at the design. They were based on "styles and trends include nurse-inspired attire, periods of military influence and austerity, the influences of Paris, New York, and Hollywood in the era of cosmopolitan glamour and the jet-set chic of the space age". I think this very interesting, who would've ever thought about bring fashion to the airline? Many designers and fashion contributed in these designs like:

• Christian Dior
• Ralph Lauren
• Jean Louis
• Adolfo
• Marc Bohan
• Yves Saint Laurent

and many more. Overall I think it's amazing to have a the exhibition here in the San Francisco Airport Commission.

Photo Credits and Site: http://www.flysfo.com/museum/exhibitions/history-airline-uniform-design-fashion-flight