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2022-08-31 
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Posted by Fred 2022-08-31 || || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 This particular craze is perhaps an extension of the overall fascination with taxidermy, and the ways in which the Victorians pushed creative boundaries with the controversial practice.
Complete tableaux featuring dead bunnies studying in a library, for example, were all the rage, and giving the animals human characteristics after death — reading, having tea, playing croquet — was especially popular
However, it’s still not totally clear how or why this became super fashionable with upper-class Victorians. But apparently, donning a dead, stuffed animal on top of one’s head was considered the ultimate in haute couture.
Birds were a popular choice, although the more adventurous types went with squirrels, mice, and kittens… which, when you think about it, is especially sad and awful in its own way.
The Victorians era was full of weird traditions, including post-mortem photography. Taxidermy hats were also part of fashion. These hats were super fashionable among the upper-class Victorians. The Victorian era is considered as the golden age of taxidermy, donning a dead animal on top of the head was considered the ultimate in haute couture. Dead mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles were used to design these taxidermy hats. English ornithologist John Hancock mounted a series of stuffed birds as an exhibit in the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Posted by Rupert B. Hayes2022 2022-08-31 00:30||   2022-08-31 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Taxidermy: Animal Hats





Posted by Rupert B. Hayes2022 2022-08-31 00:39||   2022-08-31 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 This particular craze is perhaps an extension of the overall fascination with taxidermy, and the ways in which the Victorians pushed creative boundaries with the controversial practice.

And they didn't even need TikTok to influence them!
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-31 06:23||   2022-08-31 06:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Nobody noticed the early vape pen she's hitting?
Posted by Frank G 2022-08-31 07:28||   2022-08-31 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 No skunk?
Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-31 09:44||   2022-08-31 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 ^^^ I believe those skunk chapeaus were reserved for the "common gentlemen" of the era...
Posted by Threck Mussolini3313 2022-08-31 09:56||   2022-08-31 09:56|| Front Page Top

#7 More Victorian taxidermy-animal-hats:
(y'all gettin' headstrong 'bout see'n more; kinda' like a bad car wreck, but ya can't look away.)







I know y'all goin' Bats over the last picture...
Posted by Threck Mussolini3313 2022-08-31 10:16||   2022-08-31 10:16|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-31 10:27||   2022-08-31 10:27|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-31 10:28||   2022-08-31 10:28|| Front Page Top

#10 So, tell me again, how you got into the "evidence locker" of the Jan 6th protestors, to post that last picture? ---

Posted by Threck Mussolini3313 2022-08-31 10:46||   2022-08-31 10:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Creepy. The lady doesn't seem to realize that people will be looking at a dead animal's face instead of hers and they will be creeped out.

The Indian head dress and the buffalo hats do not include a dead animal's face so they are OK.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-31 11:17||   2022-08-31 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 I think this had a lot to do with the demise of the passenger pigeon.
Posted by AlanC 2022-08-31 11:21||   2022-08-31 11:21|| Front Page Top

#13 ‘De-extinction’ engineers dream of reviving the lost passenger pigeon

Posted by Threck Mussolini3313 2022-08-31 11:38||   2022-08-31 11:38|| Front Page Top

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