You're in the Rotogravure, Peeps
OR maybe you're not. If you, as I, have skipped the Easter Parade this year. I'm a sort of freelance pagan, and being wished a happy Easter by well-meaning paraders is irritating, but this is an opportunity to see some nifty costuming, and be seen. A bit sad at the lack, but not a huge matter, especially as my brother made waffles.
My best pal Christian, the instigator of my attending in the first place, has gone abroad, so I didn't bother. It had been our custom for, gee, I don't know, like a decade, to go to the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, NYC. This is not an actual parade, it's a few blocks barred from traffic so that people can mill about in their finest haberdashery. And I've sported some pretty snappy specimens of headgear, if I do say so myself - viz, my icon, one Easter with my trusty feathery effluence, sideburns, and my seersucker suit.
Here is some of the alleged background of the Parade. It leaves out another factor I've read of - class rivalry. The cream of society may've been showing off the latest fashions, but after a while the seamstresses and milliners and servants decided to flaunt their own versions, and lo, the bonnets grew more and more elaborate...
Somewhere along the line, perhaps in the 60s when hats became a non-necessity, some went in artsy, silly, and bizarre directions. Which brings me to a now-common Bonnet material - Peeps.
And, 155 other Peeps related links. I particularly like the ones with Science!
http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/04/02/marshmallow-peeps-on-the-internet-a-study/
My best pal Christian, the instigator of my attending in the first place, has gone abroad, so I didn't bother. It had been our custom for, gee, I don't know, like a decade, to go to the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, NYC. This is not an actual parade, it's a few blocks barred from traffic so that people can mill about in their finest haberdashery. And I've sported some pretty snappy specimens of headgear, if I do say so myself - viz, my icon, one Easter with my trusty feathery effluence, sideburns, and my seersucker suit.
Here is some of the alleged background of the Parade. It leaves out another factor I've read of - class rivalry. The cream of society may've been showing off the latest fashions, but after a while the seamstresses and milliners and servants decided to flaunt their own versions, and lo, the bonnets grew more and more elaborate...
Somewhere along the line, perhaps in the 60s when hats became a non-necessity, some went in artsy, silly, and bizarre directions. Which brings me to a now-common Bonnet material - Peeps.
And, 155 other Peeps related links. I particularly like the ones with Science!
http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/04/02/marshmallow-peeps-on-the-internet-a-study/