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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."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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
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