The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-13

/ and impede those behind YOU And It's
none Of your. business, anyway.
Not such III winds After All.
But perhaps the forenoon breeses were
4 a blessing IN that they kept down the
perceptible scent of the moth BALL Many,
many moth balls might roll from UNI
seen places and click to the pavement
during the hour just preceding noon and
not occasion a great deal of surprise be-
cause this was the hour when the frock
coats with derby hats seemed somehow
to suggest the shaking down Of showers
Of moth balls at any moment
| But once the big churches OF the ave-
nue. had begun TO spill their thousands
onto the sidewalks clothes grew snappier
and frock coats were comparatively 20
| few that In the general maze OF getaways
! Manhattan blushed less furiously. When,
between 1890 and 1 40 o'clock the ave-
nue. was doing its darndest and the pee
| rade was at its best. all fears that the
unexpected moth ball would shame us
before visitors had gone, for the derby IT.
self was now being swamped by the
human plug hat OF commerce.
BY 2 o'clock in the afternoon Fifth ave-
nue. might have been the Fifth avenue OF
any pleasant Sunday afternoon In spring
80 far as quality OF clothes or quantity
OF clothes wearers was concerned. Then
after luncheon or midday Sunday dinners
had been partly digested out trooped the
rainbows again. And until dusk the coll
ors and slashes and furs and feathers
building line to building. with double
service Of green motor buses patriot
cally trying to counterfeit myriad OF
flashes Of orange hues.
Dark Mustard TO Lisht Lemon.
For although the Ulster uprising may
not be In the least to blame, the fact
remains that any one OF our own kind
Will tell you there IL altogether too much
orange and its variations In the styles
this year. Orange running down to dark
mustard on the one side or UP the scale
10 light lemon on the other yesterday
was altogether too much in the limelight
to please some OF US. Also there were all
the solid colors, and colors once solid but
busted beyond recall. 10 be seen on all
the dinky coats and skirts. but two were
yellowish TO one of any other color.
Take the cravats of Tom Ryley and
Frank Mcintyre even. or note the
yellowish fur on the automobile coat OF
John Barry RYAN scooting By In his
roadster: or Bill Courtlegh's waistcoat
as Rill lounged In a seagoing low necked
hack. or the light tan spats OF Charley
Burnham. Rll Brady or Harvey O'Hig-
gins. Streaks OF yellow In the Easter
clothes OF Charley Burnham and others
perhaps can he excused. but that the
hold the color has this year Is unprece-
dented must be evident at a glance when
one finds II used so promfscuousy by n
group that Is stlll unwilling to concede
that the battle of the Boyne was more
than a trivial incident.
Anybody who stuck around hopn. to
see the threats of some Of the l. W. W.
folks and their followers invade the
Easter parade and make II half collarless
and cravatless were disappointed. There
were many yesterday who seemed TO think
the parade sartorially lacked some OF the
smartness or other Casters but II any
OF the l. w. VS. were among those
present minus collars and ties thsy were
lost In the shuttle