Illustration: Wayne Potrue
**1959-1963**
After living and training with 15-20 women in an airplane hangar in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for five weeks�United was in the process of building its headquarters in Chicago, in what would become O�Hare International Airport�Panter Nielsen was issued the Peige uniform, a custom-dyed, pink-and-beige wool suit designed by Raymond Loewy.

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Georgia Panter Nielsen, 75, a flight attendant with United Airlines from 1960–2002 and now the international historian for the Association of Flight Attendants, walks us through some of the looks she donned on the job.

Tuesday June 26 2012

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