New-York tribune., 1911-04-17
YOUTH TRIUMPHANT
IN EASTER PARADE
Dazzling Display Of fri|Is and
FurbeIoWs Takes Sec
ond Place.
FASHION FR0WNS ON AGE
Fifth Avenue Brilliant. Despite
Snowflakes and Belated
March Winds-Grand
Street Glitters.

This win be a slender story. II is
fashionable 70 bo narrow. The more one
can look Ike o'clock the happier one
may be. according to women's tailors.
And this account deals with tho Easter
parade In Fifth avenue and round about.
No account OF that yearly exhibition
can well omit a complimentary or re-
sentful reference 20 the weather. Yes
terday the best critics decided 70 use
both. first mixing well.
Frocks as dainty as apple blossoms
We're spotted by yesterday mornings
beautiful snow. Filmiest transparencies
in panel and tunic effects We're later in
the day blown dry and high by tho be-
lated winds Of March. Golden weather
burst through the clouds that moment
before We're Implying. II was an April
dav filed with It's famous triple X brand
Of uncertain glory-cold and warm and
moist and dry.
But it was a day Of heroic deeds done
by slender heroines. In an epitome OF a
skirt and X-ray hosiery, Vet snowfakss
could not make one OF them shuttle of
any part Of the responsibility each felt
to toddle along the avenue as rapidly as
her hobble construction would permit
Simplicity. scantness and shortness-
these three. But the greatest Of these
was scantness. for 70 be scaut was 20 be
smart; and although the hobble placed
silken brakes on the parades speed. this
was a blessing 70 the East Side woman's
tailor. Groups Of fifty OF these expert
builders Of the stunted gown gathered
on Fifth avenue. between 34th and Doth
streets. Having produced their master
pieces they ranged alongside 70 bask in
the glow shed By their young custom
ers.
There were no old patrons In yester-
day. parade. The attenuated gown
produces graceful and youthful lines
only 4 vouans tailor said that there
never was spring when women looked
50 young. The elevated waist ine had
much to do with this. ne said. Then
there were the nigh gored skirts and
graduated 1ounces. He asked that par
ticular attention b. paid n these youth
ful characteristics Of the prevailing
peasant styles.
The May Martens were huttering by
as ne talked They we're bright-eyed,
CT lerry-cbeeked. attractive and orna-
mental. Remembering that they were
hobbled Il was not surprising that they
should pass little by little. step by step.
bit Nv bit. But these motions were CON
secutiye. and so the procession Of pur-
pie and lavender. Of green and rose and
gold flashed on, shooting radiant beams,
while the sidewalks rocked and swayed
with thousands Of womens hats. each
different. but all enchanting and
"tricksy"
Millinery Oefes Description.
Many Of these hats were 700 beautiful
10 be adequately described. There were
mushrooms. toques and turbans.
Whether tremulous with howers or car
rving the stately ostrich plume, each
made its owner look youthful on the
glamourous April day, and the men.
Young and old. felt the thrills and trem-
ors Of their twentieth year.
Ostrich plumes We're extremely popu-
lar. They had the life. lustre, strength
and beauty that 90 with ostrich feath-
ers imported from the plume factories Of
Pasadena. cal. and Wabash avenue,
Chicago. The favorite youth producing
hair effects were the Billie Burke curis.
the Daphne putfs. coronet braids and
poupadoure with side or centre parting
i was estimated that there We're over
uye hundred distinct modes on view, and
there was something peculiarly fetching
81 bout each sample.
some We're shy-uot many. some We're
haunting. Some wore faint. elusive pat
,4rrs nauneless colors Some wore dom
mo checks IN black ana white. There
Vas delightful and never easing pro-
,fssion ~ horizons sending forth more
ing and frail; more peasant styles worn
with patrician stare; more skirts that
gave the impression Of having been spare
t1 start with and shrunk before using
more dancing little bubbles of TO
nance. a luxuriancc of higher waist
lines. princess and semi princess frocks.
embroidery ana riDbcns. frills and fur
bellows. p,acockS and butterflies. all
radiant In the sunshine. But there was
,,o sample OF the pantaioon skirt. There
we're. however, two kilties on viev
Snow fell on white gloves and left gel
low spots and blue noses before church
services began. When the crowds filed
ont of the large places OF Worship and
i1ined thc other muititudes from Mon
treal. McKee's Rocks. New York City.
and other points that had been wambing
ND and down Fifth avenue 70 see while
being seen. the snow ceased. the sun
shone and the wind found the places coy
cred with sheer clothing
ex-senator Chauncey NJ Depew and
Mrs Depew and Mrs. Reginald Wander
| bjlt were among those who attended 81
/ Tbomas's. Cornelius Vanderbilt strolled
on the avenue with his two sons and
william K. Vanderbilt rolled by in an
automobile.
Panama and Dogs Present
/ 4 nameless individual who mas done
/ the trick several times before and. an,
parently. with the same stage properties
attracted mild attention by wearing a
/ Panama. turned violently up on the
! starhoard side. Several tiny dogs were