It's The Hawaiian Kind Of Sack
p. 141 · Read in the full issue
When the inaugural flight of Pan-Am’s new DC7 service reached Sydney on September 30, the three air hostesses had dispensed with their usual trim uniforms in favour of a garment that was probably the progenitor of the sack.
It is Hawaiian and is called a muu-muu. It hangs straight down from chin to ankle, and apart from the fadt that it is patterned over with giant hibiscus or strilitzia, looks like a Victorian nightshirt. It was probably invented about the time Hawaiians were giving up grass skirts and missionaries were having an undue influence on Islands’ fashions.
PAA hostesses regularly wear these garments on US-Hawaii flights —but for our money we’ll settle for the old uniform. If young women go in and out in the right places, why cover them up in a sack?