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Transport

Transport

Where uniform does the most commercial work: it is the only part of an operator most passengers ever touch.

Cabin Crew, 1965–1972

The years when airlines hired fashion designers and the uniform stopped being a uniform. Also the years it became the most openly commercial garment in this entire subject.
Three airline cabin crew uniforms of 1959, 1970 and 1975

Collection: Transport

Every type of transport in one place — 7 chapters, Aviation flight crew, Aviation cabin crew, Aviation ground handling and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.
Plates from the Nametape archive of transport

The Railwayman’s Coat

Heavy wool, high collar, company buttons. Built for standing on an open platform in February by companies that were, briefly, the largest employers on earth.
Three photographs of railway staff in uniform, Hungary, early twentieth century