The Trend of Wearing Stuffed Birds/ Feathers in Hats for Females
- Date Range
- 1770 – 1900
- Title
- The Trend of Wearing Stuffed Birds/ Feathers in Hats for Females
- What occurred
- In the 1770s, Marie Antoinette, Queen and in the Court of Louis XVI made it trendy to wear head pieces and hats with exotic feathers, or birds and it caught on in the United States becoming a extremely desirable and fashionable statement for the elite socialite women in the 1850s, continuing to the early 1900s when the Lacey Act was passed, "protecting interstate commerce in wildlife and protected by state statute."
- Location
- New York, New York.
- Image Citation
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- Student name(s)
- Terri Anne Shumway