The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-24
Mlodish Richmond, 10000 Strong,
Turns Out to Greet An
other Spring.
MUsTACHEs ON THE BLINK
Dame Fashion Ties Can to Mas
culine Fad and Outlaws
Wide Hats.

blown wings in the balmy air of early
spring. All early springs must have
balmy air. It's n weather formula
that has stood tho test of time. 1t was
founded In the Paleozoic age with shak-
ing like an aspen leaf so what can
Il poor wight do: il belongs in the
same class with the siencrs and the
descendants of Pocahontas
To repeat. fashionable Richmond
went to church yesterday and tapped
It's wings In tho airy balm. And if
modish clothes and bushels OF towers
are reliable indices OF fashion. then
all Richmond is fashionable No street,
however humble, was without its pa
rading couples. Wherever there was
church there was an Easter parade.
But while it is possible TO gcncra1iZe
about fashion parades on Broad Street
and dress parades on Church Hill and
sprinE clothes shows in Highland
Park Hun street Gintcr Park and
Fulton. there is, after all. only one
six cylinder self starting annual Eas-
tor parade III Richmond. II begins at
high noon ana lasts until and
stretches Tor a nautical mile along
West Franklin Street from Capitol
square to the monuments
Ten Thousand In Line.
Along the sidewalks of this his
! toric thoroughfare OF fashion and
wealth tramped 10000 people yester-
day afternoon. clothed spiritually in
| the aura that clings To one after hear
ing n good sermon. and emblematical-
Is in the airy fabrics and dazzling
furbelows that proclaim the advent
of spring. In all the history of Rich
rnond there was never such a parade
So said the policeman. So said the
gallery which stood six deep on
the portico and balconies of the Jef
90 Soil
thronged Monroe Park like a circus
lot.
The movement started at the noon
hour. when hundred churches began
pouring their thronEs into the streets
From Grace, Fifth. Marshall Laurel
and dozen other church bearing
streets. the paraders by common con-
sent found their way TO Franklin and
joined the Easter army Westward
bound half-hour later the Epis-
copal and Catholic churches. delayed
/ by long special services added their
thousands. Ry o'clock the fashion
! parade was at its height and Rich
J inond's biggest Easter show reached
! its climax
| chief Willis Moore, of the Weather
! Chief Willis Moor. OF the Weather
| Bureau. had resigned Saturday, and
the nation was yesterday without an
| oilcial sunshine compounder, but Ma
! ture put up package of her own
which has not been eQualed by Eas-
| ter DAYS In generation. Last year
IL drizzled and blew. Yesterday no,
a bad cloud appeared the livclorcy dav
! II was warm. with only suggestion
or dying understanding warm like a
! shower bath. with the hot and cold
| taps set half-and-half
Much Like All OF Them
/ Described in the altogether-not I'm
! the studio sense-the foregoing is Z,
J nf
J Those who saw il viii recognize inn
! projections. Those who didn't won't
| know the difference. There remains to
be added the fashion notes, without
which no account OF Richmonds Eas-
ter parade is complete The observa-
| tons which follow are subjective pure-
~ and carry no hol. or bullet-proof
| guarantee.
To begin with the men. it must he
| chronicled now and at once that the
tnustache is passe. 1t has joined tho
has bccus with opeuwork socks aud
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" Nine.
" per cent or the best dressed men
OH Franklin Street Yesterday showed
clean ShaNcn faces. The observation
applies, of course. only To the younger
set that has cultivated the mustachc
as a fad. and not to the older mon
who do it because thcy like il. For
'his' the world returns thanks. The
eyebrow on tie upper lip is a banality
which can we'll be spared
Sartorialiy the masculine Garb show
ed little change. y new note in high
hat attire for the DAY is the one-bt,t-
ton cutway. of which there we're M,
m"rous examples Most Of the IA =
raders, however. stuck to tho rccula.
uon coat of last year. \ remarkably
lh's &c number appeared in ordinary
sack ATTIRE The coats were closer
clipped in the shoulders, but other
al
from IN" vintage of 1872. Heels are
SUI low and fiat, derbics less wide.
ana the hat with the bow in the bacl,
seems good FOR a long run.
lin Can Tied 10 Wide lint.
ONLY an optimist would Undertake
20 describe the bcwildering array Of
feminine fashions on view in vcstcr-
daE parade one may as wen at.
tempt 10 describe Il eungct or paiuo,s
hrcW"rkS The male reviewer can note
only tho most obvious.
faShl"n has tied q tin can to tho
Wi'e nat Everybody could see that.
NO patron OF rolito vodcvn viii
weep, and no lover OF the nirkor,r,,
= films viii shed tears. No moro vside
MATS TO cut of tn" view from th. stage
J "nu no more long hntpins 10 contend
- WIN IN the street cars. The nov hat
4, - Snaih priinlcss and braiulcss II
Is decorated with no foliar. ar do.d
birds II has ,ibhor aroi,,,d M
- ""s'' iled IN stick-out bow in the
= back or side, and IN has q f.aibcr
= plume. stic" up, OF whatever Won cal,
~, mat rises up like a question mark
- an some OF the stick ups rise
hiRhor than others
differing GcnrrnIttic,
II There was the usual ou,. ~ o,,. i,
ana one variations Ia coats ana sktrio
: 10 the unframed eye they lootcn ,n,,ct
a'Kr' except as To color. In this re-.