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her hat of the 1920s which had been retrieved from the side of a highway. She interestingly and excitingly told of her hats as if they were true friends. She gave a history of hats saying that hat making was the first industry of the United States. Records indicate that Betty Custis was the first lady in the States to wear a feathered hat.

Feathers were used until 1913 when through the efforts of the Audubon Society decorating hats with feathres from wild birds was outlawed.

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