The Washington herald., 1921-03-26
FIFTH AVENUE GAY
TECOTHAMSHOWS
TSEASTER FINERY
Dress Rehearsal for An
nual Parade Is Bril-
liantly Colorful.
py w1NrrRED VAN DUzER.

NEW YORK. March 25.-The frst
dress rehearsal for Gotham's 1921
Easter parade was held today.
While spring sunshine blazed like
a spotlight, and st. Patrick's. with
Good Friday worshipers pouring
through its doors stood like a great
back-drop. all of Fifth avenue be-
came q stage.
And. oh. the furs and fabrics, the
friIls and furbelows that played
their parts thereon!
Youth. color. gayety: striking
contrast: casualness become art;
simplicity intricate as the fourth
dimension
Orange blossoms with little, lur-
ing t4ngerines on taffeta- A great
velvet rose on gown for a paper
doll. A chapeau whose lines were
f1lched from the brain OF Bartholdi.
who fashioned our own Miss Lib
erty.
A wonderous scarf Of brilliant
blue: beauty plucked from the un-
beautiful ostrich to create more
beauty for madamei
Lots of Feathers,
1t was made of plumes long and
short and they were the color OF
electric sparks. The plumes were
made to stand with curling ends
against the chin and back of the
head of the wearer, while long.
willow fronds hung like q capelet
over her shoulders. Exauisite,
Feathers again to trim a woman's
throat. but gathered from barn
yard: from none other than our ola
friend chanticleer.
The garment was Of black satin.
made on the flowing lines that
promise to lead favor this coming
season.
And beginning at the throat and
extending half way down the cape
were nounces. half a dozen inches
deep Of coque feathers. all fiutter-
ing and bristling with each move
ment of the lovely lady who
wore IT.
=. SuppIementing the cape she wore
the Miss Liberty hat. Crown Of
erushey straw. the rim was black
chantilly lace. wider in front than
on the sides. disappearing in the
back 1t was wired transversely
TO stand out from the head at
angles. like the beams of Miss Lib
erty's halo.
Dfstfnettve Hat.
Another hat. a bewitchipg model,
was made with the moments short
back and width-to- the-sides rim of
lack taffeta. The trimming was
that seen again and again today, a
punch of orange blossoms directly
In front. But this was distinctive
In having among the blossoms a
tiny pair of tangerines.
mi
cape shown in the window of a
Fifty-seventh street shop. 1t was
Scotch plaid, buff with indefinite
bar of green. And the collar was
completely constructed of yarn.
Loops, three inches deep, row be-
low row until there were seven of
them 1t was incidental, so to
speak, as though some chimney
corner knitter had sat down to
while away q few hours with yarn
and needles, and had failed to finish
her work. And therein lay its
| charm.
CoIorfuI Atmosphere.
The paper dolls dress-dreams of
childhood. and little. clever pat
terms clipped from tissue paper
was in another window.
White batiste. or something of
similar starchiness. looking exactly
Ike tissue. A stiff little outstand-
Ing skirt trimmed with three rows
OF scalloped bands. A scalloped
nchu over the blouse and scalIoped
sleeves. A dash Of color in the
trimming. an American Beauty rose
long stemmed, with buds dangling,
hanging from the belt. like a sash
This was a demure dress, lending
atmosphere of grave-eyed childhood
and sedate colonial days to the Eas-
ter parade rehearsal.
Atmosphere clashing with that
lowering round a shop window in
the Fifties where was displayed ac-
cessory, IL not of the parade of the
glorious Sunday. perhaps of the hour
| following.
Cigarette holders in such exotic
colorings and combinations of color
as undoubtedly never before smote
the sophisticated eye of this New
York;
Turquoise and lapis lazulf COM
bined with orange. Cerise with pur-
pie; Copenhagen to match the new
gnrinO anffa