Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — Origin of "Weeping” Plume. [ARTICLE]

Origin of "Weeping” Plume.

The weeping feather is said to have originated in a disastrously wet racemeeting in Paris. Uncurled feathers were brought out afterwards as a humorous allusion to the catastrophe. These melancholy decorations caught the public fancy and became immensely smart, but their lack of decorative quality soon made itself felt, and they gave place to the “plume pleureuse.” which, while also uncurled, has thick and numerous fronds, which obviate the Impoverished appearance of the first uncurled feathers. *■