The Height of Fashion

Flight attendant uniforms from the past 85 years are on display at a new exhibit at San Francisco’s international airport.

It features more than 70 complete ensembles and accessories created by household names such as Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, and designers no one has ever heard.

Presented by SFO Museum, Fashion in Flight: A History of Airline Uniform Design has outfits from the 1930s to present, revealing how uniforms have evolved over the years.

The likes of the defunct Pan Am, Britain’s Virgin Atlantic and Australia’s Qantas are represented in the display.

Featuring a cape, the earliest uniform, belonging to Boeing Air Transport, which is now known as United Airlines, dates back to 1930 and looks like it was inspired by a nurse or military outfits.

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The swinging 60’s are represented in a uniform that Emilio Pucci designed for Dallas-based Braniff International Airways, which ceased operations in 1982. The uniform had a psychedelic pattern with purple, blue and pink, a bowler hat and green calfskin boots.

United Airlines flight attendants, wearing hats, skirts and jackets, pose in front of one of the carrier’s planes in 1939

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