Easter Promenade It's Easter in Washington, late though it comes, So blare on the trumpets and beat on the drums, And pin on the orchids so fragile and scentless, The Easter paraders will move on relentless. Three hundred and sixty-four days we've been striding Because of an A card that won't permit riding, But prop up our feet today? We will have none of it! Easter's for walking-and just for the fun of it! Forego that long hike and stay home to put soup on? Conserve precious leather and 17 coupon? Ah, no, let us join the Sunday morn marches. Up with the chins, girls, and down with the arches. On with the dress with the frou-frou upon it On with the maddest of mad Easter bonnets. Add all the touches to prove that we know style, Watch for the cameraman-give him the profile. For it's Easter in Washington-on with the strolling. It's for the pedestrians bells will be tolling. H.V.
Description of Coloring Page: a little girl in her Easter bonnet, chicks, decorated eggs, Easter basket
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Here is an opportunity for all the little readers to play milliner and try their ingenuity at trimming a hat. The little men are invited to compete with the little women. And it wouldn't be at all astonishing if a little man were among the prize winners, for every one knows that sometimes boys are endowed with as good taste as girls. There is such a variety of trimmings that even the most particular milliner must find something to suit to a "T." If she should want a hat severely plain, she will find a band and stiff ribbon bows or quills to use; if a more dressy hat would suit her better, there are flowers, fruit, chiffon and ostrich plumes. The hat should be pasted on a sheet of white paper, the trimming arranged as desired and then pasted in place on the hat.
Millinery trims by Adelia B. Beard to color, cut, and paste.
Description of Coloring Page: a straw hat, trims for the hat: ribbons, bows, flowers, feathers, cherries, paper craft, color, cut-out and assemble an Easter bonnet paper craft
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Read a person's character by how they were their hat.
Character
reading by hats is a new and interesting pastime...
The girl or woman who wears her hat firmly and squarely is called the girl or
woman who has determination and ability to do things and does them.
The girl with a flabby hat set so it seems ready to blow off any minute is said
to be of the butterfly variety, without aim or ambition. Hat at a dangerous
angle means the wearer is liable to be fickle and to like flattery.
She with the bonnet tilted back on her heard, according to fans in character
reading by hats, is prone to self-indulgence.
Then there is the secretive kind, hiding her eyes behind a curtain and pulling
her hat down to her eyebrows.
The girl who is continually rearranging her hat and primping her
hair may have a fitful mind.
note: Now that we no longer wear hats often, people can never tell what our personalities are like by just looking at us.
Video of a annual school Easter bonnet competition.
Your school can sponsor a Easter Bonnet Contest for Spring. I've included an ad below from the The Day Book. Chicago Ill. 1915. The pictures have been cleaned and resized here at our blog for teachers to promote an Easter bonnet drawing competition of their very own.
I have also included a collage example using the same template. My students snipped and glued all kinds of fuzzy, furry tactile elements to their Easter bonnets, instead of drawing on them.
Easter bonnet collage made with template below and construction paper, pom poms, feathers, chenille stems etc... Girls Win Your Easter Hat!
"Sketch your idea of an attractive spring bonnet above this face. Then fill out the blank and mail it to the Fashion Editor of The Day Book. A different face will be printed for four days, today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Send in as many drawings as you wish as long as they are all drawn on pictures clipped from The Day Book. This contest closes March 29. The winner will be presented with an Easter bonnet, like her design, Free. The materials must not exceed $10.00 in cost."
Description of Coloring Page: a lady with a giant Easter bonnet on top of her head, roses, ribbon, high lace collar, Victorian image redrawn,
Coloring suggestions for the lovely Easter bonnet by Kathy Grimm
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Soooo incredibly adorable, young students model Easter Bonnets
Description of Coloring Page: straw hat, rose, forget-me-nots, lace collar, Easter parade,
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Children's Easter Bonnet Fashions from Paris in 1913.
An Easter Bonnet represents the tail-end of a tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, in harmony with the renewal of the year and the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption. Today the Easter bonnet is a type of hat that women and girls wear to Easter services, and in the Easter parade
following it. Ladies purchased new and elaborate designs for particular
church services, and in the case of Easter, taking the opportunity of
the end of Lent to buy luxury items. Now, in a more casual society, Easter Bonnets are becoming harder to find, as fewer and fewer women bother with the tradition.
Modern Easter bonnets for children are usually white wide-brimmed
hats with a pastel colored satin ribbon around it and tied in a bow. It
may also have flowers or other springtime motifs on top, and may match a
special dress picked out for the occasion.
Children in the United States often craft Easter bonnets for plays, parades and parties during spring festivities.
The following articles are from the Washington Herald's Woman's Section, April 16, 1911.
Smart Hats For Easter
by Marjorie
Will the Easter hat be a small, chic affair or a large shape with sinuously curled brim? I queried a buyer for a large department store the other day.
"Only a courageous prophet would hazard a guess," he cautiously replied. "We must wait until the fateful day and see what the majority of womankind are wearing to know definitely which way the millinery weathervane is pointing. And even then, directly as one shape has obtained too well, the more exclusive of our patrons drop it and designers turn their attention to creating something distinctive."
All of which makes the choice of an Easter hat as much of a riddle as the charming wearer herself. On can only give broad suggestions as to shape, colors and garnitures, for every woman must be her own best judge and choose a hat because it suits her face and style individually.
"The Time, the Place and the Woman" should be her slogan.
Hat Shapes Are Legion.
Hats of all shapes and sizes from 1911.
Hat shapes show the greatest diversity in outline.
Brims roll, turn, twist and flare at all sorts of angles, meeting the requirements of so many faces. Crowns are both tall and broad. As a rule, the smaller the hat the larger the crown. Although the large shapes for dress wear have crowns which harmonize with the general contour, very tall crowns resembling inverted flower pots are shown on hats with scarcely any brim, except to one side the roll may be small or high.
The new envelope hat is very largely represented.
The sides turn back abruptly extending several inches higher then the crown. As a rule the hat rests across the face, having the flare front and back. It is also poised so as to have the point come coquettishly to one side. Another edition of the envelope hat has the tall flare only on the left side. This shape is very becoming to women who can carry chic style becomingly.
La Petite Chapeau.
The helmet hat is another style that is distinctively in the foreground of smart shapes, but it is admittedly very trying. There is a strong tendency to prevent this odd little shape from becoming "common," for the prices have remained high. The same quality straws used for cheaper hats are used for the helmet, but one pays for the shape, not the straw.
For example, in a rough straw quite the same grade as employed for a $1.25 was $4.50. The trimming is so placed to reveal the shape, again to conceal it.
These San Francisco "ladies" (cough) were
photographed in their Easter hats, 1899.
The poke bonnet, dainty and demure-looking appears in its old-fashioned garb, with quaint ribbon streamers, a bit of lace, a few exquisite posies, framing young faces most becomingly. However, this is but one edition and there are numerous ways of treating this picturesque headpiece.
High bandeaus of natural ostrich feathers are laid around with a single lovely plume rising to considerable height in front, at the side or in back. A charming poke in Neapolitan straw was trimmed in this manner with ceil blue ostrich. At the base of the tall feather, standing erect like a sentinel, was a tightly folded rose in two shades of dull pink crepe de chine.
Then there are lovely close-fitting little tonques, turbans and pinched-up shapes of pliable straw, very Frenchy and chic-looking, with big, dashing bows of corded silk ribbon placed on the side or near the back, rising to a conspicuous height. A lovely one was shown in a rough coral straw with self-matching bengaline ribbon.
I note with pleasure that many of the unusual natives of Nature's garden appear on a number of the best hats. Very smart are the many dainty, fairy-like posies, including Japanese primrose, lilies-of-the-valley, Ageratum, violets, white, yellow, English daises, mignonette, forget-me-nots, primroses and honeysuckle. These complete the smaller and more dainty varieties, blended with feathery ferns and mosses.
Flowers are massed flat, again carelessly grouped, unconventionally falling in uneven lengths over the crown. Another becoming arrangement is to cluster flowers with tall steps to one side. Lilacs, carnations, roses, tiger lilies, orchids, popies, daisies, buttercups, dwarf sunflower, columbines and pansies are very effective for this purpose. The more usual in outline and coloring the more lavish the praise. Many of the small shapes are massed tightly with flowers and foliage. Crowns are mostly treated in this manner on the large hats, and the leaves laid down flat against the brim, slightly overlapping each other.
Poor Old World. "How she does long for the new Easter bonnet." Minneapolis Journal, 1905
Flower fantasies were never more fascinating, and there is so much originality in their arrangement and in the very unusual coloring. Two-toned chiffons and satins are employed for the flowers and foliage. The lining of the leaves is often of a contrasting shade. The rich, but soft, old colorings in tapestries are beautifully reproduced in flowers, especially in roses, blue merging into dull pink, tan, green and lavender, and are especially rich.
Clusters of little roses and berries in bright hues are novel and very dainty features. Fine grasses dyed in fashionable hues appear with flowers in harmonious contrast.
The three shapes on this page have been copied from the latest models made up for smart spring wear. (upper, left)
The center model is a dress hat of black erin in a picture shape with helmet crown massed in white and black malines. The crin brim is faced with black satin. Three chiffon and satin roses are effectively arranged in the malines. The satin serves as a lining for the chiffon.
Model to the left, an envelope in blue milan, massed with aigrettes.
Model to the right, a French shape in satin finished coral straw with new wide flare. Panache of aigrettes, self-toned, rising from the center under and cabochon of corals and cut steel beads.
Easter Parade is a 1948 American musical film starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire and Garland's best-known songs, such as "Steppin' Out With My Baby" and "We're a Couple of Swells."
It was the most financially successful picture for both Garland and Astaire as well as the highest-grossing musical of the year.
In 1912, Broadway
star Don Hewes (Fred Astaire) is buying Easter presents for his
sweetheart, starting with a hat and some flowers ("Happy Easter"). He
goes into a toy shop and buys a cuddly Easter rabbit, after persuading a
young boy to part with it and buy a set of drums instead ("Drum
Crazy"). Hewes takes the gifts to his dancing partner, Nadine Hale (Ann Miller),
who explains that she has an offer for a show that would feature her as
a solo star. Don tries to change her mind and it looks as if he has
succeeded ("It Only Happens When I Dance With You"), until Don's best
friend, Johnny (Peter Lawford), turns up. Nadine reveals that she and Don are no longer a team and it becomes obvious that Nadine is attracted to Johnny.
Angry, Don leaves to drown his sorrows at a bar. Johnny follows him
and tries to persuade him to talk to Nadine, but to no avail; Don brags
that he does not need Nadine and that he can make a star of the next
dancer he meets. After Johnny leaves, he picks out one of the girls
dancing on the stage, Hannah Brown (Judy Garland),
and tells her to meet him for rehearsal the next day. Hannah then
performs a duet, singing a musical number with a member of the band
(Norman S. Barker) on trombone, "I Want to Go Back to Michigan." The
next morning, Don tries to turn Hannah into a copy of Nadine, teaching
her to dance the same way, buying her dresses in a similar style and
giving her an "exotic" stage name, "Juanita." However, Hannah makes
several mistakes at their first performance and the show is a fiasco.
Theatrical release poster
Hannah meets Johnny, who is instantly attracted to her and sings "A
Fella With An Umbrella" while walking her to her rehearsal with Don. At
the rehearsal, Don, realizing his mistake, decides to start over from
scratch by creating routines more suited to Hannah's personality. Hannah
sings "I Love A Piano" and she works out a dance routine with Don that
proves much more successful than their earlier performance. The duo, now
known as "Hannah & Hewes", are shown to be performing
"Snookie-Ookums", "The Ragtime Violin", and "When That Midnight
Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam'" in a montage of their performances.
At an audition for Ziegfeld Follies,
where they perform "Midnight Choo-Choo", they meet Nadine who is
starring in the show. Hannah realizes that Nadine was Don's former
dancing partner and demands to know if they were in love. Don hesitates
and Hannah runs out of the rehearsal where she encounters Johnny. Later,
Don meets Hannah back at the hotel and reveals that he turned down the
Ziegfeld offer, believing that Hannah and Nadine do not belong in the
same show. Johnny soon arrives and takes Hannah out for dinner at which,
after a comical routine by the waiter, Johnny reveals that he has
fallen in love with Hannah. While Hannah does like Johnny, she admits
she is actually in love with Don; she also admits to deliberately making
mistakes when they rehearse so she can be with him longer. She and
Johnny continue to have a close friendship.
Meanwhile, Nadine's show opens and Don goes to see it ("Shakin' The
Blues Away"). He is the only member of the audience who seems
unimpressed. Later on, Don goes to see Hannah and tell her that they
will be starring in another show and invites her to dinner to celebrate.
Hannah goes to dinner at Don's, only to have him suggest a dance
rehearsal. She is immediately upset and turns to walk out, telling him
that he's "nothing but a pair of dancing shoes" and that he doesn't see
her as a woman, but as a dancing aid. Hannah is particularly annoyed
that Don doesn't notice her new clothes and all the effort she has made
for him. She tries to leave, but Don stops her and kisses her. Hannah
then plays the piano and sings "It Only Happens When I Dance With You,"
after which Don realizes he is in love with Hannah and they embrace.
The couple take part in a variety show, with a solo by Don ("Steppin'
Out With My Baby") and then comes the most famous musical number in the
film ("A Couple of Swells"), in which Don and Hannah play a pair of
street urchins with vivid imaginations. Don and Hannah go out to
celebrate after the show and end up watching Nadine perform. Nadine is
mad with jealousy when the audience gives Don and Hannah a round of
applause as they come in. Nadine is the star dancer in "The Girl On The
Magazine Cover." The song features an ingenious stage act, in which
women appear against backdrops that look like the covers of contemporary
magazines. Nadine herself appears on the cover of Harper's Bazaar.
Afterwards, she insists that Don perform one of their old numbers with
her for old times' sake, as she tries to win Don back - "It Only Happens
When I Dance With You (Reprise)." When Don reluctantly agrees, Hannah
becomes upset and runs out.
She ends up at the bar where she and Don first met. There she pours
out her troubles to Mike the bartender ("Better Luck Next Time"). Later,
when Hannah returns to her apartment, she finds Don waiting for her.
Don tries to explain that he was forced to dance with Nadine, but Hannah
thinks Don used her to make Nadine jealous and win her back. Don tells
Hannah he'll wait all night for her to forgive him, but just before
Hannah opens the door, Don is kicked out of her building by the house
detective. The next morning Hannah is telling Johnny about her and Don's
misunderstanding. Johnny says if he loved someone he would let her know
it, implying that Hannah should forget the argument and be with Don.
Hannah realizes that Johnny is right and goes to meet Don for their date
for the Easter Parade.
Meanwhile, Don has been receiving various gifts at his apartment that
morning, such as a rabbit and a new top hat, unaware that they're from
Hannah. She arrives unexpectedly at his house, as if the argument never
happened. Don is a little confused by this turn of events, but decides
to go out with Hannah anyway. As they walk in the Easter parade, photographers, echoing a scene with Nadine from the beginning of the film, take their pictures and Don proposes to Hannah ("Easter Parade").
