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I am looking at a clean blue-grey FinnAir interior, currently moving at 850 km/hr to the northwest somewhere over clouded Beijing, or perhaps already Mongolia. We are en route from Shanghai to Helsinki. The polite and sensible hosties are dressed in uniforms apparently meant to evoke Greta Garbo playing Queen Christina, who was neither polite nor sensible (nor even Finnish).
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Connell, R. (2015). The Outward and Visible Sign. In: Gibson, R. (eds) The Memory of Clothes. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-953-1_27
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