New-York tribune., 1920-04-05
Drizzle Thins
Easter Parade
In 5th Avenue
Crowds There to See, but
Feminine Finery Display
IsConfined to Bcwildcriua
Variety of New Silk Hose
Fashion Seen in Churches
Rain and Gloomy Skies Rob
Annual Procession of
Usual COlorful Features

only 70 give up at evening in despair.
Thousands Of new bonnets and silk hats
did not even see the light of the frown-
ing dag. New York abandoned about
noon its efforts to take the annual
Stroll on Fifth Avenue. and only here
and there from Washington Square to
10th Street could daring young thing
IN lace stockings. summer apparel and
gay ha. be seen. The others were wear
ing overShoes and raincoats.
Where an Easter hat did appear, how
ever. il was one 10 dazzle the eyes
One Young woman, very pretty, and
stepping along in lavender French shoes,
lavender hose with a'lavender bow just
below the knee-yes. the slit in the law
ender gown WAS that high-lavender
wrap and lavender hat with lavender
feathers and plumes. lighted up the
fororn avenue shortly after the con
gregatio began pouring from the
churches
Beside her, wearing white spats, walk
ing suit. silk hat and carrying snow
white cane, walked man, trying as be st
he could to be unconcerned, even
with the rain dripping onto his waxed
mustache and with the curious onlookers
trailing in his wake or craning necks
from the passing automobiles and busses.
Display of New Hosiery
There were many, many pairs of lace
stockings and black silk stockings and
flesh colored ones, and even pink ones,
10 be seen. 1t appeared after the noon
hour that some OF those who had feared
10 bring cut their smart headgear had
chosen to come out anyway, displaying
their new hosiery instead. Standing at
Fifty-ninth Street one saw scores of
ankles strikingly clad. And the corner
was crowded.
A reminder that plaids are popular
this season was emphasized by six young
women of a theatrical company. who
appeared in kits. Going SIX abreast
down the drizzling lane, they won the
attention OF all. and policemen at times
were forced TO drive the gathering
crowds onward
Inside the hotels that face the avenue,
away from the splash of mud and the
constant rain, there was much OF color
q be seen. At the Waldorf, st. Regis,
Plaza and Savoy the visitor stepped into
fashion gallery as he entered from
the street.
In the hope that the weather man
might be wrong and the day bright, the
authorities had decorated the slender
framework supporting the new traffic
towers in green vines and flowers. and
the street was swept as clean as dance
floor from one end of the thorough1are
to the other. Merchants flew their flags
after the fashion of Armistice Day. and
window trimmings were in keeping with
the occasion.
Avenue Churches Filled
Tire aftcr-church crowd. was small,
but all the edifces were filed and
the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas
Forty. eighth Street and Fifth Avenue
had signs on the doors Church Full
The throng in st. Patricks Cathedral
Was so dense that it seemed as though
not another person could be wedged in
St. Bartholomew's Church was taxed
to capacity with its own congregation
and visitors, and at the morning serv-
Ice there was the usual number Of
fashionable worshipers. Mrs. Oliver
Hartman Mrs. Edwin Goud, Mr and
Mrs. J. Shillito Rogers and thei- boy,
Mrs ". Barton French and her sister,
Miss Marie Louise Emmett. Miss Ethel
Cariart, Miss Kate Cary, Mrs. William
Douglas Sioane, Mr.. and Mrs. W. B..
Osgood Field. Mrs. ]. Nelson Borland,
Mrs. Frederick Pearson and Miss Lesley
7. Pearson, Mrs. Philip A. S. Franklin,
Mr. and Mrs. +. L. V. HoppiN, Nh ard
Mrs Edmund 5. Twining jr, Mrs. J.
Lee Taller. Mrs G.. Howard Dawson
and Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. c. Smith were
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