If we are honest, we all made a few style errors in decades past, what with the Bananarama feather cuts and the root perms.
Someone had dug up fantastic footage of miners who had been told by their bosses to wear hairnets down the pit; better that, the young men said, than abandoning their beloved new feather cuts.
The more feminine the woman, the better the feather cut will look.
Feather cuts, glitter boob tubes, blue eye shadow, crimplene flares and highly flammable nylon shirts with collars the size of a jumbo jet do not fill the prospective Seventies clubber with confidence.
The venue was packed with mullets, feather cuts and bleach jobs, with one deluded soul attempting to navigate the gloom in a pair of dark glasses.
The snake-hipped Rod Stewart singing Maggie May inspired my first feather cut.
verb
[with object]
Cut (hair) into wispy tapered layers.
as adjectiveblack feather-cut hair
Example sentencesExamples
He looked like a little lost boy, with his feather-cut brown hair and innocent eyes.
A sharp-suited young man from Liverpool, he sports the mop-topped, feather-cut hairstyle of a Sixties mod.
In contrast to her vampy outfit, Michelle kept her hair and make-up relatively simple, opting for simple hues and giving her blonde feather-cut locks plenty of volume.
Asked how he feels about one hack's overwrought description of him as ‘the feather-cut prince of the blues‘, he frowns, repeats the phrase slowly and inquisitively as if trying it on for size, then quickly changes the subject.
It's run by the appalling motivational fitness guru White Goodman, played by a feather-cut and moustached actor Ben Stiller.
A bunch of roughnecks with feather-cut hair and Indian canoes was loitering by the river bank, smoke still wafting from the barrel of their gun.
This was an era in which pop stars were a vision to behold: dressed in spangled, glittering costumes and teetering atop platform boots, hair carefully feather-cut and back-combed.