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Title
To tint or not to tint: no choice for fly-girls
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph article dated May 31, 1962 partially reads, "The girl with the small white bow midst rather red-blond hair, sort of fuzzy on top, shrugged her shoulders and looked sad. She was too pretty to look sad. 'I'm unhappy,' she said. 'I was a light ash blond when I started work and had my hair checked. Now I have to keep tinting it to keep my job. Once I lost a month's pay because I didn't tint it.' Girls around her - all shapely, all well-groomed, all with hair problems, all rather unhappy - nodded in agreement... Eight girls, all stewardesses on major U.S. airlines, gathered at the Sheraton-West Hotel in Los Angeles to air a bone of contention: Some 40 per cent of the airlines ban the use of hair-coloring or rinses by their female flight personnel."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00131871
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d037_f14_i22
CARL0005544687
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/62225
Subject
Women--California--Los Angeles
Fans--California--Los Angeles
Flight attendants--United States
Hair--Dyeing and bleaching
Hair dyes
Hair
Airlines--Employees
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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