Published on in “History, Fashion”, language — English. 7 pages.
Bowman Museum in Prineville, OR has a new display about women's fashion during the 1900's that required copious amounts of feathers to accomplish: The Hat Industry. This is an overview of that display. Feather hunting, also known as plume hunting, became as lucrative as gold mining in the late 19th and early 20th century. Plume hunters could barely keep up with the insatiable desire of women all over the world to have extravagantly feathered hats that were all the rage at the time. More
