Dave J writes:

I'll also say this about the generation gap. I clearly missed the days
when people dressed up to fly, or when flight attendants flirted with
anybody.

I don't know that there was ever a time when flight attendants routinely
flirted with anyone, unless their employer requested it (not inconceivable in
the old days).

People dressed up because air travel was too expensive to be undertaken
routinely, and so any trip on an airplane was a special occasion. However,
during the same era, people dressed up a lot more for all sorts of occasions.
As little as forty years ago, many American women still felt a need to wear
gloves when going out.

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