My Father worked for Imperial Airways 1928 1940,BOAC 1940 1964, and he use to regale us with stories of Senior Captains especialy Captain O.PJones lining up the cabin crew inspecting cleanliness of uniform , shave and nails befor allowing them onto HIS airplane and woe betide if they fell short of the mark they had to go and smarten up and a voyage report was made against them plus all the cockpit checks had to have been carried out and all he had to do was to pull on his leather gloves and order "Start 1" not like now in the days of our dear Queen there was no M.E.Ls as once the plane left Croydon they didn't see it for a week or two.would we like those days back? My father said he never changed even when he flew Connies after the war and even ensured stocking seams were straight on Stewardesses.