Transport used to be more glamorous, it is a simple fact. If you look in the news archives at the type of transport that our grandparents used to use, it is obvious.
Nowadays we tend to put on a comfy tracksuit and a pair of trainers for a long journey, whereas they used to be dressed up to the nines!
Take driving as an example. Less than a century ago, when cars were just beginning to be popular, driving was a special occasion. OK, it may have been a rougher ride due to the technology, but going for a drive entailed dressing up in Sunday best and treating it as a day out. Even the shapes of the old cars, the Ford T and the Rolls Royce Phantom were elegant and classic.
Then when air travel was invented, only the rich could afford it at first. It was not until the sixties and seventies that the masses could afford this glamorous form of travel.
People really took their time to dress up for the occasion; it was an important event in their lives. And likewise the air hostesses were dressed for glamour and not for practicality. They served sumptuous meals on bone china, not the pre-packaged rubbish on plastic trays we usually receive today.
Mind you, on reflection, I think that I still prefer the comfort and technological advances in transport that we enjoy today!
