Fees to import bird's retro outfits (8)
I believe the answer is:
costumes
'outfits' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'fees to import bird's retro' is the wordplay.
'fees' becomes 'costs' (I've seen this before).
'to import' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bird' becomes 'emu' (emu is a type of bird).
'retro' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (retro is Latin for 'backwards').
'emu' in reverse letter order is 'ume'.
'costs' enclosing 'ume' is 'COSTUMES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for costumes that I've seen before include "Garbs worn in play and fancy dress ball" , "ensembles" , "Clothes for stage or fancy dress balls" , "Dramatic attire" , "Dresses (up)" .)