Throngs Stroll in Fifth Avenue, While Churches are Jammed Easter Sunday in Shanghai was a day of comparative quiet. Ant impressively solemn service' at the Cathedral, an Enster egg hunt for the kiddies, a stroll out on Hungjao: Road, or perhaps riding out along Rubicon Road—but thet was all, But such was not the case, how ever, in New York, according to the ends there, is on this supposedly con-secreted day thet Dame -Fa: chooses every year to present her annual pageant of "what is being worn." So at high noon on this day the aristocracy and the hoi polloi of this paradox of American urban life may be seen in an endless pro-menado. A promenade of those who are there to see, and of those who are there to be seen To begin with, we are told, the day was conducive to the occasion. Sunny skies smiled upon the milling. throngs. Perfumed breezes waited a cooling breath across feveres faces, as thousands pushed and Jostled their way into the churches along the avenue, while more thousands were pushed away. Congestion was particularly heavy at St. Thomas's and at St. Patrick's Cathedral, where large det policemen' were on duty to order, By noon when the servic yere over and the worshippers Poured out into the sun-bathed streets, halts were' as necessary for them as they were for motor cars, Black and white and the conserva-ive shades of brown and grey were the dominane colour motifs. Skirts were longer but not long enough to swish about silken ankles The uneven hemline was almost as rare as. the flapper costume of a few years. ago.
Tiny close-fitting hats—usually of black—with rims turned away from the brow, gave the feminine promenaders the appearance of ingenues. Coats were belted or fitted at the natural waistline and the coats of suits were cut short with flaring peplums, More men, we understand, wore formal attire this year than usual and in the Fifties at noon there must have been about thirty to the block. Brown and grey and blue were worn without partiality by the informal saunterers, with grey possibly having a slight edge on the other colours. Here and there a man could be, seen wearing a hat of bizzare shade or shape, but it might be added that in all probability he was displaying it, for remuneration from some manufacturer seeking to start a new trend in the style of masculine headgear.
Freakish attire, which has often appeared in the past years, was missing entirely from the display. One young woman attracted considerable attention by her struggles to keep " monocle in the convention al position. Another carried a huge yellow plush dog under her arm, and a precocious child of three thereabouts walked at his father's side swinging a Lillipatian wall stick and with a man-sized pipe gripped between his teeth, About one woman in four wore corsage bouquet of lilies of the valley, roses, sweet pens or violets. 'There were fow expensive bouquets, the half-dozen women who had orchids invariably receiving attention from the photographers, whom there were swarms in' the neighbourhood of the churches, The steps of the Cathedral, of St Thomas's and the Public Liberary served as grandstands for sight seers who arrived early enough to find room on them, Others viewed the spectacle from the tops of Fifth Avenue busses, packed to capacity, while many drove slowly up and down the avenue in their own cars, creating a problem in traffic control, Most of the trouBle was caused by persons who wanted to stop their automobiles at the curb in order ta gape at the passing throngs.—K.
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