stackyFACTSIn the 1910s, women's fashion involved spectacularly massive hats decorated with entire taxidermied birds. Cinema managers had to deploy passive-aggressive lantern slides begging patrons to remove their aggressive headgear so the people sitting behind them could actually see the screen.
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