Two old fashioned gentleman are staring at a woman outside. She has a huge frill around her neck.
A lady's dress frill is not that large, and is very ungainly.
Why is her frill so huge?
It deployed when her carriage rear-ended an ox cart.
scene: a village description: Two old fashioned gentleman are staring at a woman outside. She has a huge frill around her neck. uncanny: A lady's dress frill is not that large, and is very ungainly. entities: Ruff_(clothing), Attention. caption: It deployed when her carriage rear-ended an ox cart.
The woman's oversized ruff collar is juxtaposed against the modern invention of an air bag. Air bags deploy during car crashes --- and here, the collar inflated during a collision between a carriage she was riding in and an ox cart as a safety mechanism. It's funny in part because, while it explains the oversized collar, collars are cosmetic rather than functional.