America's Favorite Holidays by Bruce David Forbes

Author:Bruce David Forbes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520284715
Publisher: University of California Press

Easter parade: crowds in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Easter Sunday, 1904.

In the United States the tradition’s most prominent example became the Easter parade, which arose somewhat spontaneously in the 1870s and 1880s when parishioners from prominent New York City churches strolled Fifth Avenue following Easter morning worship services to show off their elegant fashions, especially ladies’ hats, their “Easter bonnets.” Irving Berlin enshrined the practice in his famous song “Easter Parade” (1933), which was followed by a movie with the same name, starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland (1948). At its height in the late 1940s, the New York City Easter parade drew crowds estimated at over a million people, inspiring other parades in cities like Atlantic City, Boston, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. The parades still occur annually, although they are substantially diminished and are now more of a carnival featuring outlandish hats, instead of the fashion show of earlier years.

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