Make a selection from Ostrich and Pheasant Feathers for Carnival Costume

When we think of any carnival, the first picture that comes in our mind is colorful costumes, music, dance and street parades with large gathering of people. Of course, a carnival celebration is incomplete without all these things; but among all, costumes play a significant role in making the carnival celebration more graceful, lively, arresting and enthusiastic. In fact, some of the carnivals are characterized by their elaborated costumes that represent the true soul, culture and traditional values of a specific country. These costumes give a differentiating look and feel to the street parades and cultural events that are performed during the whole festivity.

In most of the carnivals, celebrated around the world, feather costumes are very much popular. Some of the popularly known carnivals are Rio Carnival, Venice Carnival, Jamaica Carnival, Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, Mardi Gras, to name a few. In all these carnivals, bird plumes are used to make different styles of costumes that include headpieces, masks, wings, and other accessories. For these purposes, varieties of plumes are used. Some of commonly used plumes are – Ostrich, Pheasant, Peacock and Cocktail. Among these widely used plumes, Ostrich and Pheasant are more prominent, as their usage raise the carnival grandeur in every manner.

But now, the question is which plume is the most apposite for designing carnival costumes – Ostrich or Pheasant. It is very difficult to get the answer of this question, as both the quills have their own characteristics and importance in terms of their usage as carnival costume. When we talk of Ostrich, their quills are large, soft in nature, and give a silky-smooth look and feel to the costume. Conversely, Pheasants have big, distinct, elaborated and hard-wearing quills that give costumes a unique look. You can use plumes, spads and nandu types of Ostrich quills; and ringneck, goldentail, lady Amherst and reeves types of pheasant quills to make beautiful carnival costumes.

If you are choosing ostrich quills for making costume, you need to first decide whether you want to make large or short costume. For large one, you can use plumes and spads types of ostrich quills, as they are long in length; whereas, to make short costume, you can use nando ostrich quills. If you are choosing pheasant quills for the same, there are wide varieties available. For example, Reeves Pheasant quills are extremely long in length; therefore they are best to make carnival costume wings; while Lady Amherst pheasant plumes are widely used to make carnival headpieces.
 
Among these two plumes, you can choose any, be it Ostrich or Pheasant, as per your preference. But, you need to ensure that whatever feather you are choosing for carnival costume that should be the appropriate one to make you the center of attraction in the whole carnival festivity.

Schuman Feathers offers wholesale ostrich feathers and pheasant feathers wholesale, along with several other top-quality feathers to let you make the best and the most alluring costume for the carnival.