New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-01

and Colds, smiled down yesterday on
such crowds as the city had not seen
in Easter parade in many years.
They were war crowds unmistak-
ably war crowds. The sound of war
had been in the churches, the sight Of
war was in the streets, the very touch
OF war was in the balmy caress Of the
breeze.
Blue-sober navy blue-and brown,
and black tie crowds wore. On the
brighter colorings. the Easter cloud
scape for once held monopoly. " ell,
Easter long enough had been boarding
its due of fair weather. No better
year than this to up-end the ethereal
strongbox!
1t was the height of fashion the
women dressed in, the grand dame of
the Avenue and the belle of the caster
ly Broadway each according to her
lights. But the shades of the frocks
seemed more sedate
Not Like Parade of Ten Years Back
Somehow or other, were they grave
VI SoS, IL was nv NHC 6OWHS anu titc
plumage of the smarter sex that stood
out Here again this was not like the
Casters of decade gone, this which
in all eXternals and perhaps at the
heart of it was New York's first Easter
of war. For what commanded the eye
and turned the thoughts was the garb
of the men.
With them-with those cear-eyed,
olcan-lmbed youngish men who were
so omnipresent in the throng that is -
Easter clothes. going-away clothes,
fighting clothes. were all the same.
The city had seen them from the side
walks, hiking along on review with
their rifles and packs and holstered
walks their own paths lay. They had
left their arms behind, and column of
four was column of two. These Of
Easter were their .ivatc parades-
parades for two, and only two
So if the most striking of the cos
tunes on display must be here de-
acribed and what hardy chronicler
cares slight that feature. infalibe of
Easter then let the predominant
three be they.
No was a simple creation in SER
viceable blue, evolved on the motif of
blouse and brooches. The breechcs
were belled at the bottom, worked out
along lines to give the exactly proper
degree of bagginess and touched off at
The back. Immediately below the waist
line. with an effective draw string, in
black. The blouse was featured by a
deep collar, hanging we'll over the
corner with n white star. held within
& triple border OF braid to match. Shoes
were inrari ably of black leather, but
headgear afforded wider opportunity
for individual expression.
One popu ar style was Of unrelieved
white, done in canvas. with close-ilt-
ting crown and suartly lifted brim.
cake top and ornamented with twin
ribbons and usually with the name of
some favored war vessel Of the United
States Navy stencilled in gold at the
front The whole Jack Tar ensemble
was carried with q slight roll and worn
with an expression of great determiNa-
ton 1t has been put out in unprece
dented quantities under the trade name
The Depth Bomb
No. > was also OF blue. with trousers
cut on more conservative lines, and
blouse collar, front and skirt trimmed
With braid. Worn with visored cap.
with gold cord blue seacloth overcoat
with gold characterization at the shout
ders and an alg-round anti submarine
lock. Called "Thc Convey"
Olive Drab Frequently Seen
No. 3-last in the descriptive list. but
perhaps most frequently to be seen
was olive dra5 in color. close-fitting
three-piece effect of tunic, brooches and
puttees. In most cases the puttees seen
on Fifth Avenue were of leather. On
other and less pretentious thorough
fares leggings of canvas were the rule,
Catalogued as "The Upton" and gen.
orally wore with bit of millinery adj
jacent to one shoulder or the othor
And these were the costumes of the
day. They were everywhcre-on Fifth
Avenue, on Tenth Avenue. on. Bushwick
Avenue, in Flatbush and Harlem and
The Bronx, on the lower East Side and
the upper West Side. The whole army
and the whole navy might suddenly
have been billeted onto New York, and
yet there scarcely could have been
more of Uncle Sans men in evidence.
For a good many of them the Easter
visit was farewell visit.
Biuejackets and privates were as free
OF Flfth avenue as their OtNccrS, Tor
the Army of Freedom and the Navy OF
Liberty are the same democratic in
sttutions in these days, when the bat
tie is for democracy. But the eye OF
every man in uniform was out for an
other uniform, and saluting arms
worked with the regularity of the
clocks of yesterday
1t was the army's show and the
navy's. with civilians just there as a
background. Worshipping at ST.
Thomas's and st. Bartholomew's and
the Church of the Heavenly Rest, in
the avenue; at Grace Church, at the big
bend in Broadway, and at ST. Georges,
IN Stuyvesant Square, were the same
old groups OF fashionables, but Easter
parading was not for them.
Society Review Missing
For five or SIX years the custom that
was 20 dear to uppercrustdom when
the Two Thousand was the Four Hun
dred has been on the decline. Clarence
II. Mackay, strolling along Fifth Ave
nue. with mis- Easter blooming children.
van the entire "society parade" last
year And yesterday he and the girls
we're again almost alone. How much
longer can stout heart hold out for
things that were memories that the
rest Of his kind have packed awav in
lavender. another Of the picturesuue
habits Of old New York slipped into
the past?
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