I remember too! My Mom always made my 2 sisters and me new outfits for Easter.
Yes, there were new white gloves and shiney patent leather shoes and ruffley
socks until we were teenagers, when Easter might become the occasion for our
first pair of nylon stockings. I remember mine when i also wore a beautiful
pale blue suit, every stitch sewed by our mother, and my first pair of tiny
heels. We probably came home from church to feast on the very same Easter
dinner we feasted on today — ham and deviled eggs, potato salad and asparagus!
It was our first holiday dinner with 3 of our 6 children and their spouces at
the table — in more than a year, and the newest member of our family, 6-week
old baby Brooks, who is our sixth grandchild. No church or Easter bonnets for
any of us, but lots of Springtime hope! Happy Easter!!
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On Apr 4, 2021, at 4:12 PM, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl,
You and I are probably the only 2 people on this list who know those lyrics.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Easter Parade
When I was a boy, I longed for the day when I could do all the "fun stuff"
that wwent on in the big city. Along with dining in the fine restaurants and
attending live theater, I would imagine myself marching in the Easter Parade
in all my finery. And of course, on my arm would b Elizabeth Taylor.
And we'd be singing, "In your easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the easter parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over, I'll be the proudest
fellow in the easter parade..."
Carl Jarvis
On 4/4/21, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wonder if anyone remembers the song, Easter Parade by Irving Berlin?
The Easter Parade was a real event which took place on Fifth Avenue each
year.
Perhaps it still did, until Covid. People dressed up in their new
spring finery and traveled into Manhattan from whatever borough in
which they lived, and strolled along, looking at the other people in
their new spring clothes and at the windows of fancy department
stores. The important thing was people's hats. Celebrities and wealthy
people wore extravagantly fashioned hats with colorful feathers and
sometimes, unusual constructions.
My father worked in a millinery factory so my mother and I always had
new hats, but they were not extravagantly fashioned, just new hats in
good taste. You young people may not realize it, but well dressed
women always wore hats and gloves when they went out. Because my aunt
and uncle lived in Washington D.C. and my mother and I often spent the
Easter holidays there, we attended their Easter Parade which took
place on connecticut Avenue, which was Washington's equivalent of New
York's Fifth Avenue. As a child, I was always given a chocolate
Easter egg and sometimes a little toy rabbit or fluffy baby chicken. I
spent summers on my grandmother's chicken farm. Baby chickens are kept
in a very warm room when they first hatch and they're adorable.
Miriam
