Aerogram

British conceptual designer Hussein Chalayan created the "Airmail Dress" in 1999, which collapses or expands, depending on your point of view, into or out of a standard blue aerogram; the resulting breakdown between a human being and an envelope is funny, and disturbing, and rather touching. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In view of our precarious position and the lives of men in jeopardy, I sent this evening an aerogram to H.M. King George asking for a relief ship. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When he got back to his office he found an aerogram, which read as follows: ❋ Unknown (1918)

When they had come close enough to make us out at all, Kantos Kan's operator received a radio-aerogram, which he immediately handed to my companion. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Helium had been notified by radio-aerogram of our approach. ❋ Unknown (1913)

He could scarcely read that aerogram to the commission. ❋ Homer Eon Flint (1908)

The man stepped obsequiously forward and presented a message, for all the world like any ordinary aerogram. ❋ Homer Eon Flint (1908)

"Well, I guess that's all right, gentlemen," said Mr Parmenter, as he handed the aerogram across the big table littered with maps, plans and drawings of localities terrestrial and celestial. ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

Just as they were beginning to think about breakfast one of Lennard's assistants came down from the observatory with a copy of an aerogram which read: ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

Such news as reaches us comes entirely by despatch rider and aerogram. ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

In fact, it was only this morning that we got an aerogram from the Lizard as we came up Channel to say that war was almost a certainty, and advising us to get into ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

The aerogram also gave the positions of the lighters loaded with ammunition which he had deposited round the English shores in anticipation of its arrival. ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

He sent a telegram to Dover ordering an aerogram to be sent to John Castellan, whose address was now, of course, anywhere in the air or sea; the message was to be repeated from all the ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

Morning aerogram, I am one of those exhausted benefit people. 99 and out. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He said the increase in the price of stamps would not burden the people who sent ordinary letters within the country through the aerogram, which was cheaper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In those days, there was no Internet, so after she went I had to write to her on aerogram (air letters). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm particularly fond of the old aerogram feel of the border pattern. ❋ Addy Dugdale (2010)

He was often lonely and miserable during his travels in 1973, in that different "age of aerogram letters and big black unreliable telephones" which made communication with his wife in London difficult and bred the suspicion that all wasn't well. ❋ Unknown (2009)