![]() Coffee, Tea or Me? captured the steamy mystique of the stewardess profession while also turning out to be a notorious literary hoax. For a fantasizing public, the memoir Coffee, Tea or Me? by Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones told us what we wanted to hear about these supposed temptresses of the friendly skies:Įxcept it wasn't. People dressed up, and drinks were on the house. Flight attendants were perceived to be beautiful, free and easy, and air travel itself had a glamorous, romantic, sexual appeal. There were all sorts of ideas and trends in the ether - sexual liberation, female independence, skin-baring groovy fashion, tell-all memoirs - that combined to fetishize the flight attendant profession and uniform. ![]() And that's a good thing.īut air travel gained a steamy mystique in the '60s and '70s. Flight attendants today (or air hostesses) are career men and women, performing their professional duties without the expectation that they are to be ogled, flirted with, poked or prodded. ![]() We've lost something in the evolution of the flight attendant, from the servile stewardess: sex appeal and intrigue. ![]() A book like Coffee, Tea or Me? could only happen in 1967. This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardess life, jets you back to those golden days of. ![]()
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