Hats off to Harriet!

Article Abstract:

Women's hats were routinely ornamented with bird feathers in 1896 when Harriet Hemenway of Boston, MA, read of a grisly bird slaughter and decided to fight against feathers in fashion. She founded the Massachusetts Audubon Society in Feb 1896, which helped to eliminate plumed women's fashions.

Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1996
Environmental associations, History, Hemenway, Harriet

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Carrie knows best: L.A.'s latest diet diva has stars and moguls brown-bagging it to Le Dome

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Wiatt is founder of Diet Designs, a nutrition counseling service used by various Hollywood celebrities. She has a bachelor's degree in nutrition and uses her food science knowledge to prepare foods and proper diets for people who tend to eat nutritionally unbalanced meals.

Author: Greenburg, Dan
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vanity Fair
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0733-8899
Year: 1992
Food and nutrition, Celebrities, Wiatt, Carrie Latt

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Carrie Donovan chats up Marjan Pejoski

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Designers Donovan and Pejoski discuss using feathers in fashion designs. Pejoski's controversial dying swan design was worn by Bjork to the Oscars.

Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 2001
United States, Interview, Fashion designers, Pejoski, Marjan, Donovan, Carie

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Subjects list: Usage, Behavior, Feathers
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