Feathers?

[McClef]

Not wishing to raise any hackles but the Black Watch shop happily sells its hackles for £1.

http://www.blackwatchshop.co.uk/prod...products_id=29

So what some think should be earned others can buy and seemingly with the blessing of those who earned them.

Let the wearer decide, say I.

[Tullibardine]

One thing that always gets me is the 'medieval re-enactors' and Ren Fair types who wear pheasant feathers in their hats - pheasants weren't introduced into Europe until the late eighteenth century

[PiobBear]

So what some think should be earned others can buy and seemingly with the blessing of those who earned them.
Let the wearer decide, say I.

And I choose not to, for the reasons stated.