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Feb. 29 New Uniforms for B.E.A. Air Stewardesses and traffic girls on show: Members of the B.E.A. Staff were to be seen this morning displaying the new Stewardesses and traffic girls uniforms. Some 800 girls will report for duty tomorrow wearing the new uniform for the first time. They are the result of much thought by the girls themselves the School of Fashion Design and the Royal College of Art and is a complete departure from the normal military styles. They are in a new pure worsted with a tiny blue-black check, with a hip length jacket buttoning to the neck, with a wide collar straight skirt with a Dior pleat at the rear a neat hat which is designed to withstand harsh treatment and a single breasted raincoat with raglan sleeves. Both Summer and Winter uniforms are of the same design but of different weight materials. Photo shows B.E.A. Girls displaying examples of the new uniform. L-R: Thelma Cleave of Finchley in the new raincoat, with hood: Jennie Ham of Melbourne in the new Stewardesses Coverall and Catherine Smith of Glasgow in the new Stewardesses uniform of a hip length jacket, with wide collar; straight skirt and a hat which is smart but which will withstand harsh treatment
