Posted on September 25 2011
Karl F. Moffatt notes that in addition to bringing more attractive women into fly shops, the feather-tress craze has led to evolution in the materials market: the selling of non-hackle feathers as an alternative to the ones that are critical to tying an Adams and other patterns. “[Toner Mitchell, manager of The Reel Life fly shop in Santa Fe], says Whiting’s sales reps have been pushing ‘fashion packs’ that include other types of feathers they hope hairdressers will take to.” In the Santa Fe New Mexican.