鸭子时装秀

陕西 马 洁

澳大利亚一年一度的鸭子时装秀是已故的澳大利亚农民布莱恩·哈林顿的创意，每年有超过90万人定期参加这一活动。

Birds of a feather tend to flock together, but birds in personalized period costumes can only be found in one place.

Australia has an annual duck fashion show.While it sounds like something that happens when your close friends correct your secret thoughts about vogue (时尚), it is, in fact, a real thing.Every year, nearly a million people in Australia head to Sydney to celebrate the show.There's one special event that you can only find at this show, and it's really amazing! It's called the Pied Piper Duck Show, and it's basically ducks dressed in costumes waddling down a“cat walk”.

That's right! Incredibly, this kind of fashion show has been held for the past 30 years.The annual duck fashion show is the idea of the late Brian Harrington, an Australian farmer who organized the event from its beginning until his death in 2015.Although Brian is gone, the show must go on, and over 900,000 people regularly attend the fashion show each year.

During the show, ducks model three outfits: daytime, evening, and wedding.Their outfits have to look as if they've stepped out of an 1800s time capsule.Top hats, bustles, corset dresses, and tiny lady hats are all common sights on the duck runway.Visitors can't get enough of the adorable animals, and at the end, they get to vote on their favorites.Australians are known for strange ideas,but this is a new level of cuteness we can never have expected!

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