The Flight Attendant's Shoe
Art, Design & Photography Biography & Memoir Travel & Exploration
The Flight Attendant’s Shoe by Australian scholar Prudence Black is a stylish, illustrated deep-dive into the uniforms, shoes and evolving image of cabin crew from the 1930s to today. Blending aviation history, fashion photography and biography, this 2011 paperback explores how a simple heel became an icon of travel glamour and female professionalism.
Young adults and grown-up fashion or travel buffs alike will enjoy the rare archival images and interviews that chart changing hemlines, safety demands and airline branding. Black’s lively narrative keeps the focus on people—pilots, designers and especially flight attendants—whose footwear literally carried the jet-set era.
This copy is clean, tight and unmarked, with only light scuffing to the cover and no writing, dog-ears or smoke odour. The illustrated pages remain crisp, making it ready for gifting or shelve-worthy reference on aviation, fashion or travel history.
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