These are a few illustrations from my copy of Coffee, Tea, Or Me?, the best-selling 1967 inside peek at the life of a stewardess. Reader Andrew H. had put a link to it in the comments sometime during Canada Week, since my copy made a couple of rounds as our communal bathroom reading whilst we were roommates - this new reprinting appears to have one of the illustrations I picked here on the cover. A couple of the reviewers on Amazon have gotten all hot & bothered that it promotes a negative stereotype of "flight attendants", but none of them appear to have been working on an airplane in 1967, so what do they know? This book is great. Another look at the world of the stewardess which was obviously somewhat inspired by Coffee, Tea, Or Me? is the Gwyneth Paltrow film, View From The Top. Reviewers were very harsh on this film when it came out, and I can't claim that it's great or anything, but I like it a whole lot just the same. It's just sweet, stupid, untaxing fun... plus Ms. Paltrow and her co-stars (including Christina Applegate) spend almost the entire film in very, very tight outfits and there's a nice catfight where Gwyneth's face gets pushed into a large dinner roll. Recommended renting (or ask to borrow my copy since I own it on DVD). More stewardess links: here's a page on Canadian stewardesses of the '50s, here are some Pacific Southwest Airlines (since swallowed up by USAir) stewardesses - on top of these groovy photos there are tons of cool PSA memorabilia to be seen in the Gallery section of that page. And finally, here's some stew news from the Orient: "Stewardesses from more than 20 foreign airlines will vie for titles including best "beautiful angel" at a pageant being held in China."