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Okay, the hats look AMAZING, but they are also EXACTLY the reason why you're not allowed to pick up and keep bird feathers in the US anymore. lol
Also, I learned something interesting from that article! This was happening about the same time as WWI. In WWI, when a man wouldn't enlist, sometimes a woman who knew him or was related to him would give him a white feather. The white feather was a badge of cowardice, and was extremely shaming, especially as an insult to a man's masculinity.
A popular women's accessory at the time was an "aigrette", a bunch of feathers. It took the feathers of four egrets to produce one aigrette. Because of this, eventually the news media took to calling the aigrette "white badge of cruelty.” Turning tables on the ladies.
(the Gender Discourse is perennial.)
