@sinituulia (Eventually I will unearth the photos at my mother’s house and find pics of me looking like this… the horror, the horror! )

@sinituulia Without the impossibly tiny waists, yes, those giant puff sleeves, high ruffled collars, and big romantic frills WERE what we were wearing in the 80s and we thought were the bee’s knees! I also had a very gelled hairdo with a LOT of floppy fringe, I think. And my best friend’s wedding dress - oh, the ruffles, the ruffles! Could we have fitted any more ruffles on? Only if we took off some of the bows…

@sinituulia Emu feathers are still part of Australian Military Uniforms for some regiments! And no way would I want to try and pull feathers from an emu!

I had a friend who was a milliner who used to specialise in feathered hats and oooffff, even just “Coq” feathers took a ridiculous amount of prep (and they’re really just plain old chook feather or geese or something) but she used to do these hats that were several thousand hand stitch feathers per hat. Amazing hats, but…

@sinituulia Oooh, thanks for this link! Now, digging in my brain, there was an episode of the podcast “Dressed: The History Of Fashion” way back in May 2018 called “Murderous Millinery” about … yep.