The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
franklin Street Rivals Fifth
Avenue in Riot OF
Colors.
TWAS RAINBOW GONE MAD.
All Richmond in Its Finest Joins
in the Easter Day
Parade. u

Kaleidoscope in its brilliant color,
West F'ranklin-ward the course of the
Easter parade took its way yesterday
afternoon. It almost seemed Firth
Avenue. in New York, or Beacon Street.
IN Boston; the superb new gowns. the
high hats, swinging canes and the n.y.
ing squadron of autos made the ilIu-
sion very real In fashions fair fem
unity brought Parts to Richmond. 1t
was dress sight that made the eyes
sparkle and the cynic comment on
what wonderful progress has been
made since the days when Eve APP
peared in greenhouse costume
oh. those hatsl In all hues famed
the famous "chanucler," which has
brought glory to poor Edmond Ros-
land, glory that may be immortal when
the names Of his plays are faded and
forgotten. The dame with the slim
purse wore pullet wing; the stout
i lady with her henpecked husband.
who has the coin, wore a whole roost
that stuck up like a lighting turrct
on a hattleshtp. But all were chic
and Frenchy.
Sometimes the hats coming down the
epike looked like a covey OF scarlet
pigeons on the wing; again they looked
IKE a perambulating flower garden,
and sometimes like travelling fruit
display. Some of the hats were loaded
down with cherries; they looked so real
that the bar-tenders who failed to lazy
by 4 stock OF JOY oil for sunday
got thirsty at the thought OF many
a dear dead cocktail decorated with
the natchless Maraschino.
Some Old Friends We're There.
And the mems high hats-they told
hundred different tales. Some wer,
fresh from the halter; some had seer
two generations; some were bought
some were given, and many are not
yet paid for There was the staid ole
beaver of the old-fashioned gentleman
and right behind ii came the scooped,
out top-piece of the gay young sport
who cooks his eggs over the gas in
the morning and Hips his fingers in
golden bowls at the local cafes when
night has fallen.
Everybody had on something new 10
be sure. Some of the men had on just
Il new black tie or sported a new cane:
but "Kiddo" Jones not only had on a
thew suit, new hat and a new neck
tie, but he illustrated the artistic BEN
ehts of a hair SINCE, face massage
walked by his side, was q peacherino-
a real live model of ultra fashion That
that of hers wax. = "PeAner" 1t was
little wheat .Geks Shining like gold,
and making her look some class" as
"kiddo'' remarked to her as they passed.
Monroe Park. where the vulgar rich
looked on with lofty lorgnette
What No Man Can Describe.
The glory of those gowns no living
man can describe. ANY living woman
could, because she knows the difference
between aeoleon ana pongee. When it
comes to understanding the different
kinds OF cloth chat Il woman wears
+ man becomes the suffragcttc, and only
tile danes can vote. But all the
| grades and degrees and descriptions
and kinds and varieties were there
tamcta, foulard, 'nlanuish tweeds."
brilliantine, messaline and so on in
definitely running the gamut of the
! milliners Sanskrit song.
Lurline, the beautiful stenographer.
was there ia her furs. Some wondered
y why she Wore them, when open cars
We're shooting up and down the streets,
but no one knew that In a careless
morning moment she spilled a drop
OF peroxide on the brand-new gown,
and so she had 70 cover 1t up She
lad spent her limit already, and she
understood the wlIipped-out look on
the face of the married mamie too
had had TO cough up IAN awful bunch
OF money" for Easter regaIa,
All sorts and Conditions of Men.
The newly-riCh We're there in all
their EorSeousness but IN all theil,
glory they never eQuaicd the sweet
and dainty tastefulness of those who
know that beauty Is simplicity and
that fine feathers do not mean every
thing-that the 'Sowan fine Is not all.
After they had been from ST. Paurs
10 the Davis Monument and back. n
tritle Of SIX or eight times, more or
less. the paraders turned in. and the
glory thai was hats aud the grandeur
that was gowns faded The supreme
moving masterpiece OF The milliHel.
had been painted.
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