Telegraph Interview: http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG8893968/Creating-Pan-Ams-costumes.html
For the TV Series Pan Am, I looked at the interview with costume designer for the show, Ane Crabtree, to see the authenticity of the infamous airline's uniform. Crabtree said it takes one month to make a Pan Am uniform from scratch and that, 'We had one original Pan Am uniform from the Sixties and it was measured to within an inch of its life. We rebuilt it for the show. Now we have 16 uniforms, and we are building more slowly'. This shows that the even if the uniforms are not the original uniforms from Pan Am, they took extra care and measure to it to make sure it was authentic. Apparently it takes twenty craftsmen to make the uniform, the hats were made by a milliner in Los Angeles and the Pan Am pins are hand moulded. Crabtree stated that they were 'making them as they would have been made in 1963'.
To style the different characters, Crabtree used 1960's icons to inspire the style. For Christina Ricci's character, she used Elizabeth Taylor and Natalie Wood as inspiration, James Dean and Steve McQueen for the male characters.
Here are some pictures of the costumes on Pan Am:
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