New Yorkers certainly know how to celebrate and the annual Easter Parade is no exception! Combining tradition with imagination, the easter bonnets that are worn by participants in the parade are full of fantasy and the surreal.
Dating back to the mid 1800's, a combination of religious services and haute couture saw the beginning of the Easter Parade. The social elite would parade their new fashions down 5th Avenue after they attended services at local churches, and the less well to do would come and see the latest fashion trends. The 'Easter Parade' event was also memorialised in Irving Berlin's 1948 musical that starred Fred Astaire, Judy Garland and Peter Lawford.
While there is still high fashion involved in the event, the modern version tends to be more fantastic with live birds nests in bonnets and pets dressed in the latest 5th Avenue fashion.
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