1970s: Dubbed the 'lollipop' or 'jellybean', this vibrant uniform saw female staff wear short A-line dresses in a range of pastel colours. Photo / Air New Zealand
Snapshots show how the airline launched the 'designer uniform' and tackle fashion's most infamous eras, including the swinging sixties and seventies, as compiled by James Draper for the Mail Online
They've long added a touch of glamour to the friendly skies.
But Air New Zealand's staff uniforms have been on a gruelling journey since it first launched in 1940 - as these vintage photographs reveal.
Navigating turbulent fashion trends over the past 70 years, its crew attire has embraced everything from chic tailoring to garish patterns. Often with hilarious results.
First, they were influenced by WWII, which gave them a formal and military aesthetic, before they went clean, white and clinical for the fifties.
A decade later, in the sixties, they introduced the first designer uniform - by Christian Dior, no less - then got playful with prints in the seventies and eighties, before eventually settling with today's Pacific Wave look.
To celebrate this rather entertaining evolution, here are the airline's most memorable wardrobe moments.