Beauty

[Iwantcoffee]

Emirates flight attendants. Has anyone flown Emirates? I have not.

[San Antonio Gal]

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@monicakm wrote:
Oh @JudyL, I wish I had been of age in the 50s and 60s.

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I would never want to have lived in the 50's @monicakm .   Many reasons.

[monicakm]

@Iwantcoffee

I have not flown on this Airline but it's on my bucket list.

[KLm]

Flight attendants used to have weigh-ins at work. If they were overweight (I mean 5 lbs), they were cautioned I think at first. Then they could lose their jobs. They starved themselves. I've seen them mistreated and disrepected on board by many male passengers who saw them as objects.

My mom and I went to the same college, and not a whole lot changed in the interim years. She was not allowed to wear pants of any kind. When I was there women had to sign in and out of the dorms if we were spending the night elsewhere. The men did not. This changed in my sophomore year as women no longer signed in and out.

I worked at a bank. The men smoked wherever they wanted in the bank. The women were required to go back in the break room to smoke. None of the women tellers were provided any type of seat or stool while they worked. The men had stools.

The greatest faux pas I could make was to have a bra strap show or a slip hang below my skirt. What horrid transgressions those were!

Doesn't sound so great to me.

[Enufstuff]

@San Antonio Gal  Remember  "Evening in Paris" or worse,

                               "Blue Waltz" perfumes from Woolworth's or  the pharmacy ?

[foxywoods]

I went to a cattle call once for flight attendants. It was the mid-'80s and I do not remember the airline. We all sat in an auditorium and  were asked questions intended to eliminate unsuitable candidates.  We had to be willing to spend overnights in different cities. I did not last long. what was I thinking! I was a young mom.

[SactoSue]

I think I am guilty of the majority of  those taboos at some point in my life, probably multiple at the same time or event.

[SactoSue]

I have not flown Emirates.

I have flown Egypt Air, decades ago.   There was no alcohol served   There were predominantly male flight attendants.  The few female flight attendants were generally in the back of the plane, where there were several sections exclusively for women that were closed off by curtains. 

The flight was a good deal from NYC to Nairobi and back, via Cairo.

There was a 3-day layover where I was put up at the Cairo Hilton on the Nile and had an interesting time touring the Giza plateau,  Saqqarah, and Memphis.  I got a great tour of the Cairo Museum when the gates first opened in the morning by giving the guards baksheesh and getting unfettered access to everything.   

Being all alone in the King Tutankhamun section in the quiet stillness of the morning with that incredible mask and sarcophagus was a peak experience.