Elton John?

So, eagle feathers?

We need to tell her feather!

Stupid coonts. Feathers-as-a-fashion-accessory is creating a shortage for flyfishermen. The local tackle shop is sending their best stuff to California because they get more money from hairdressers than from humble fly tyers.

/ shakes fist in futile anger

That whole "rebellious" thing... I don't think it means what you think it means.

Without freaking out your parents? Hello? Missing the point?

Ok, I really think this has gone on long enough. It's called a farking roach clip, and you got it at the fair, if you didn't have enough tickets for one of those stretched out 7-Up bottles full of neon pink & blue sand.

Heh, the kids will have to go to a lot greater lengths than mere feathers to freak Mrs. Smurf and I out.

sheep_shagger: Stupid coonts. Feathers-as-a-fashion-accessory is creating a shortage for flyfishermen. The local tackle shop is sending their best stuff to California because they get more money from hairdressers than from humble fly tyers.

/ shakes fist in futile anger

Trends will die in due time. Most tiers I know have watched the market and capitalized on it. I think my Dad is on his third Abel thanks to the stupid prices people are paying.

/just started tying last year
//haven't started using feathers yet and won't bother to do so until the trend dies

Skarekrough: sheep_shagger: Stupid coonts. Feathers-as-a-fashion-accessory is creating a shortage for flyfishermen. The local tackle shop is sending their best stuff to California because they get more money from hairdressers than from humble fly tyers.

/ shakes fist in futile anger

Trends will die in due time. Most tiers I know have watched the market and capitalized on it. I think my Dad is on his third Abel thanks to the stupid prices people are paying.

/just started tying last year
//haven't started using feathers yet and won't bother to do so until the trend dies

Meanwhile, another parrot species goes extinct so people can pretend to be birds.

I'm in favor of non-permanent adornments. Time for pretty girls with nice skin to stop getting all inky.

I like feathers, and tattoos, and noserings.

I'm a 36-yr old follower, for sure!

Hmm, I've worn feathers in my hair sporadically over the past few years....

Did I start this trend?

/I did it before it was cool!

I remember when this trend first came around - 80's? and wearing feather earings and feathered roach clips. My dad hated it but mom thought is was pretty cool. You know your're getting old when you see "new" fashion trends come around for the second or third time.

My lawn, get off it!

And here I was wondering why my five year old daughter kept asking me to buy her one of those Roach clips

Wiggins Hat: I remember when this trend first came around - 80's? and wearing feather earings and feathered roach clips. My dad hated it but mom thought is was pretty cool. You know your're getting old when you see "new" fashion trends come around for the second or third time.

My lawn, get off it!

My winnings from the 1983 Cass County Fair midway shall make me RICH! Suck it 99%ers...I got my feathers!

Wiggins Hat: I remember when this trend first came around - 80's? and wearing feather earings and feathered roach clips. My dad hated it but mom thought is was pretty cool. You know your're getting old when you see "new" fashion trends come around for the second or third time.

My lawn, get off it!

Stoned minds think alike.

Puff puff pass

It might freak out your parents, if your parents are microbiologists.

Seriously, wearing feathers is like wearing a bag of someone else's toenail clippings. It doesn't say "glam," it says, "I'm a very special boy who went to the beach with my parents and decided to put flotsam on my head."

thesloppy: Ok, I really think this has gone on long enough. It's called a farking roach clip, and you got it at the fair, if you didn't have enough tickets for one of those stretched out 7-Up bottles full of neon pink & blue sand.

So much this.

It worked for the Native Americans, AMIRITE?

I would like to apologize for my local paper. They are desperately trying to stay relevant.


You can see how well that's going.

airconswitch: I would like to apologize for my local paper. They are desperately trying to stay relevant.


You can see how well that's going.



Maybe they should syndicate Rick Romero or update Rick-Romero-Style reporting with Juan Sombrero.

chaddsfarkprefect: airconswitch: I would like to apologize for my local paper. They are desperately trying to stay relevant.


You can see how well that's going.



Maybe they should syndicate Rick Romero or update Rick-Romero-Style reporting with Juan Sombrero.

*Ricardo Sombrero

What if I use the entire chicken?

OgreMagi: What if I use the entire chicken?

I have no idea what you're talking about, so...

Feathers?

The most rebellious creature in the world.

When white women put feathers in their hair, they're imitating and mocking the Other, brown people's ritualistic use of feathers, that's WHY it's considered "rebellious".

Yo, Janis Joplin put feathers in her hair and she wasn't racist but she was rebellious for the best of reasons.

AcneVulgaris: Skarekrough: sheep_shagger: Stupid coonts. Feathers-as-a-fashion-accessory is creating a shortage for flyfishermen. The local tackle shop is sending their best stuff to California because they get more money from hairdressers than from humble fly tyers.

/ shakes fist in futile anger

Trends will die in due time. Most tiers I know have watched the market and capitalized on it. I think my Dad is on his third Abel thanks to the stupid prices people are paying.

/just started tying last year
//haven't started using feathers yet and won't bother to do so until the trend dies

Meanwhile, another parrot species goes extinct so people can pretend to be birds.

They're feathers from Roosters.

Nice try, troll.

When can we start wearing ring mail again?


Ace is the place.

Ravengirl: Skarekrough check out DominaNY pictures. I don't know what feathers the Native Americans are using, but I know the display feathers the Papuan gentleman at the top is wearing is the main cause of the near extinction of several species of birds. I realize that no one's lopping off a bird of paradise's head to throw some feathers on an insecure American girl who's trying to keep up with the latest of trends, but several species of birds in Papua are about to be wiped out because they are pretty.

The feathers fly fishermen use are from Roosters. Specifically from places like Whiting Farms. They're bred for qualities fly tiers need when tying.

That's the corner of the world I'm coming from. Everyone else can go take a farking leap as far as I'm concerned.

I keep flapping but nothing happens.

Unhip1: It worked for the Native Americans, AMIRITE?

Works for some of us. Not all of us.

Given nobody else has made the obvious KitH reference...

DominaNY: When white women put feathers in their hair, they're imitating and mocking the Other, brown people's ritualistic use of feathers, that's WHY it's considered "rebellious".

Oh, take it easy on the white women. It's not their fault they have no culture of their own and they're trying to latch on to someone else's. Personally, I find it flattering that they're seeking it out rather than trying to stamp it out like European settlers have been trying to do for the last 200+ years now.

Elsewhere in TFA...

"Show some leg," he advised. "And wear a strong shoe.""

Sage advice for the Vegas showgirl in us all.

In my day, feathers were used for more than fashion.

Ravengirl: Skarekrough check out DominaNY pictures. I don't know what feathers the Native Americans are using, but I know the display feathers the Papuan gentleman at the top is wearing is the main cause of the near extinction of several species of birds. I realize that no one's lopping off a bird of paradise's head to throw some feathers on an insecure American girl who's trying to keep up with the latest of trends, but several species of birds in Papua are about to be wiped out because they are pretty.

As I am a hooman, I vote for allowing native cultures to stay alive and vibrant and let a particular bird species die out. Species do die out, whether by human invention or a myriad of other reasons.

Sure, let the Papuans get missionized, wear white people's clothes, worship white people's stupid superstitious gods, lose all traces of their indigenous culture so they can flock to the cities on the coasts of Papua and live in horrific poverty. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

They've been putting bird feathers on their heads for probably 40,000 years. Leave them alone and celebrate how feathery they are.