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Rh can now wear nearly anything we choose with practicality—and sometimes price—the deciding factors. Of course an exception is the case of airline pilots who must wear uniforms while on duty. Then, too, there is one of the women pilots who insists she doesn’t get service at airports if she wears street clothing even though she arrives in a closed plane where there is no necessity for trousers of any sort. When she does venture forth in skirts, she keeps a helmet on the seat beside her to clap on her head after landing to impress attendants.

So clothes have an important relation to aviation. I have mentioned them throughout this book because I think they not only may characterize individuals but throw a side light on the development of the industry as a whole.

To return to Elinor Smith, these days she has a fast Lockheed, such as Miss Nichols has used, and no one knows what is up her sleeve.