The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-24
new YORK'S EASTER
PARADE A RIOT Of
BULGARIAN COL0RS
Balkan Style Blouses, Girdles
and Ribbons Turns Sum
light Into Shades
BL.OBS OF COLOR
ADORN THE HEADS
Slashes in Hobbies Reveal
That Gray is a Grand Col
or and Popular With
the Ladies

attn come dickering down Tchatalja
way, they say and Adrianople IL
stubborn. but the Bulgarians nave
captured New York. The Easter pa
rade in Fifth avenue today revealed
to dazzled eyes the gorgeousness OF
the Bulgarian blouse, the Buigarian
rfrdie, and the Bulgarian ribbon.
which isn't a ribbon; Its riot
ON the word of lady who knows,
a girl might just as well have stayed
home and minded the parrot unless
she could display between Madison
ennare and the Plaza one of those
Bulgarian effects which look like
poet -fYnnressionfst's sketch OF the So
lar spectrum A ray of sunlight had
no change whatever with these Bull
garian wrappings 1t busted into
million places before II fairly III
Did You See This.
You have seen pictures OF Tosstoy
lettering about his estate In loose
blouse. and maybe you have watched
RUSSIAN peasants enter America
through the gates Of Castle Garden.
wearing things that looked like skirts
which had not been properly tucked
In. Very we'll. then. That gives you
a sort OF ground plan of the bulgarian
blouse that all the girls are crazy
about this year, but unless ven ell
bowed in the Easter parade you miss
ed the high lights OF the thing.
Take a mujik's baggy blouse. color
II pompsian red, drape q vide yell
low sash loosely around the hips,
add a skirt so narrow at the bottom
that no lady can step more tnan
twelve or fourteen inches at a time.
ana ait nj one or both sides, 80 as
~ show At least 81 rs worth OF W
pair OF elk stockings, and you VIII
have some idea of the show that
crowded spectators four deep against
the house walls Of the Fifth avenue
sidewalks, and convinced the old gen
tIeyneu In the club windows that life
was worth living after all.
No Easter Parade? Thomas Rot
Who aays there isn't an Easter pa
xasfe7 All Thomas rot, AS long as
two sidewalks for two miles are pack
cd and damned with giriies wearing
things that would make cubist pain
ter scream for assitarce; as long as
there is. a display Of color and an
exhibition Of style that would bother
Tselasco to reproduce. there will be an
Easter parade. Today's parade proved
once more there LIS no show IKE II
anywhere
It began Just before noon while the
churches in Fifth avenue Were still
crowded with worshippers and the
organs were still pealing generously
ana triumphantly the meaning of the
day. and season. It lasted actually
ali OF the sunlit afternoon. although
the glory of 1t was most brilliant
before $40 O'clock.
The Commercial Side.
Drifting along the avenue at noon
fust when the parade was getting up
steam, and every side street was pour
ing girls. girls. and more girls, Into
tha raptdly filling thnroughfare. you
noticed first OF all that the photo
graphers snaprshotters. and moving
picture folk. were ready 10 so into &C
ton from strategic positions. One
utrabIe snap-shotter operated from
the top of lamppost TO which he
chung with monkeys sureness while
ne made pictures OF the freakfest
gowns md the prettfest girls.
About / o'clock when the parade
was In a. full swing, you got some
notion Of the practical value and COM
,nerciaI side of the annual fashion
shnu From hundred small towns
near and far, miliners, shopkeepers,
hat designers, dressmakers, buyers
and manufacturers who were keen
for farst glimpse Of the new styles
and the latest color effects had come
to make notes
From Twenty-third street TO FIFTY
ninth there were hundreds of keen
eyed observers from the downtown
Wholesale clothes houses, who were
there for work, not play. Wherever
YOU walked you find the style scouts,
eager for line on Poirets models or
the niftiest thing from Paris or Lon
don.
How Far Can q Slash?
They had lot to remember, be-
cause the Easter parade this year just
about put 1t over all other parades
for shrieking colors and noisy styles.
AS for the hats Lids are little this
season, only biobs OF color. enough
to roof tho head. There was the
canoe. which IN all that Its name Inn
plies boat-shaped hat with a shad-
ed feather tutting UP like mast. But
even the canoe was lost sight of when
YOU caught the slashes. The slashes
isn't hat Its misdemeanor. Its
a slit running northward from the
hem of the skirt to somewhere south
of the knee. and displaying consid-
cradle hose. One had no difficulty in
perceiving that gray Is. a grand color
for hose 1t Is popular. because 1t
looked like very thin black. All the
girls are crazy about shoes with COL.
ored tops. When you weren't busy
wondering how far a girl could 20
with the slash. and still be lady. You
were watching the blue-topped, and
the white-topped, and green-topped,
and gray-toppcd shoes.
Nell Rose is the Color.
No mere male could survive the
color riot and still remember just
what shades are the newess and most
H fashionable this spring. bu. the lady
who knows said very positively that
unless one had something In Nell
rose. one might % we'll go and live In
kind OF cerIse which IL q kind of live
III red, Then, too. therc were COM
8 binations Of xray ann rose. cf purlAle
and Csyiaa, az mum md black. A$