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"Course in slimming is part of curriculum at American Airlines’ luxurious college for stewardesses near Dallas. Here trainees roll away excess hippage."











Hi Rebecca,
ReplyDeleteI found your blog recently, and I'm enchanted! From your pretty blue hair, fairy tale-like home, unique style to your amazing photos, I adore your blog.
This vintage photo-series has given me even more reason to like you: What a great idea, and what an interesting peek back into the past! I can't make up my mind if I'm appalled ("trainees roll away excess hippage") or merely interested in a time long gone. As you said, I'm definitely happy to live now, and not back then. The freedom we have now is invaluable!
Wow! Fascinating! As a history major, I love looking at this sort of thing. Thanks for posting.
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What a great collection of vintage photos!
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My jaw figuratively dropped reading those quotes. It's horrifying and yet pretty laughable. I can't imagine living in a world where things like that were just acceptable and probably no one batted an eyelash at them. jeeeeeeez!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing! I like vintage clothing too, and I think it's a very common misunderstanding that people think I love everything about that era... Well, no, mostly the aesthetics! Reading old articles like this is so eye-opening... I don't know if I should cry or laugh! Especially the part about having to be slim around the hips. The photos are gorgeous though!
ReplyDeleteIf only "excess hippage" could be just rolled away ;) Great series!
ReplyDeleteLove this inspo so much! Aren't they all just so classy?
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My sister-in-law is a flight attendant with United, and I'm so glad she didn't have to experience the kind of training women had to go through in the '50s. Some of those quotes made me cringe a little. "Excess hippage"?? Still, I couldn't help but be captivated by the photos!!
ReplyDeletePretty shocking stuff in there. Learning more about history is one series of surprises after another! Yet it's encouraging how far we've come since then...
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