Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21
BRILLIANT THRONG
FILLS BOARDWALK
100000 in Brilliant Fashion
Pageant Greatest in
History of Shore
FILMY GOWNS AND FURS
Button, Button, Everybody Has
Million of Them-SoIdier
Escorts for Girls
FILMY GOWNS AND FURS

The sun was out shining. the breakers
tumbled high,
And the Boardwalk seemed rainbow
that fell from out the sky:
For hundred thousand pretty girls
went gayly tripping by
With those Easter frills and furbelows
that captivate the eye
A whole cityful of people joined the
Eastr parade on the Boardwalk at At
iante CITY yesterday, and they together
walked enough miles 70 take a venture
some person up to the moon and back
again. 1t is figured more than POO ,OOn
persons were in the paradc-thc largest
Easter crowd on record.
Freak Costumer Few
The weather was almost idpoI far
promenading. The sun shonc all dav
excepting for about an hour at midday.
and the air was brisk and invigoratiug.
In the afternoon stiff breeze from the
sea made walking difficult.
The parade was unusually devoid Of
the So called freak styles" 1t was not
without its characteristics. However.
Besides the everlasting incongruitios of
low necks and throat furS, and of straw
hats and overcoats, there was a notable
superabundance of necklaces of colorcd
wooden beads, brilliant wcskits, soldiers
and buttons.
These great strings of large beads
were oriental in atmosphere and black
brown. flaming red green. gold in color.
They hung outside the coats from the
necks of the paradng maidens. The
weskits of silver or yellow serge or of
male blue or mink. or of Paisley motley
contrasted waU with thc dark coInrs of
the coots and the hobblino skirt IIrr
dreds of soldiers douchbovs in oIiro
drab no;Ius in hIpo and Tonn,ios
Some of them wounded throw ont their
chests and counted the countless buttons
on the packs OF the damseiS VINO strolled
ahead OF them. Large buttons small
buttons, black buttons. brown. Row
on row, these buttons edged many a
clinging skirt. and marched single hle
upon the heretofore unfrcQuented areas
OF Amaryllis's broadcloth.
From bobbed hair and black trimmed
specs TO cOiffure most conventional.
young women's heads moved up and
down the Boardwalk in restless review.
''piping" each other off" And with
out stint or special favor they. along
with their menfolks. ceaselessly regis
tered mental approval or disapproval
Of the passing show.
l.,
mast the shops in their tight fitting
kind, of snaky gray and black. Ant
= sweet Mary Pickfords, in bpfowerot
and beruffled white ftpcks. watched then
with wistful eyes. Light sumner dresses
with ,diaphanous sleeves and thick ful
capes moved side by side in the gay
march. There was color enough. but
with heavy mixture of the simple
severity or the military style.
Military 7 e,tber Suit
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at.ant;on I;d ;ot n;dia i%G %,D hnb;t nj ~
boots .nd sonniDa hr;r,r7od Iat A
Mali. DOZEN ..Iond,7 hIacl,-onL.vbit'
chocLared aF,;rs rro,.od afootiro
A dress of bl,,o With a hig eiIver sun
burst radiating extensively from tn,
region of tho Knees onened many criti
cal ewes. This extremely tight hobbl
was fraud A ten-inch slit in tn
back made II a walkable skirt. And tn
saving grace for most of these loni
hobbies on the Boardwalk Yesterday wa
lust such a slit. some of them occurring
on the fanks. some of them fore ant
aft.
The hats took on a distinctively ma
tionalistic tone. China offered the roun'