New Yorkers know that the three big bonnet events of the year
are the Broadway Cares Annual Easter Bonnet Competition (this year is their 27th anniversary!), Park Conservancy’s annual “hat” luncheon in May and before that—the quintessential Easter Parade.
While no longer dominated by fashionables showing off their new spring ensembles in the “rotogravure” like the dandies in Irving Berlin’s iconic song, The Avenue, Fifth Avenue is still the mandatory setting. These days instead of finery, the fashions are more apt to be fancy, fantastical over-the-top creations.
Beginning at Saks Fifth Avenue to 57th Street, from 1 a.m.—3 p.m., automobiles are banned while people stroll up and down the street wearing crazy caps with all the frills upon them— papier–mâché baskets, cityscapes and ferryboats, beflowered stovepipes and fedoras, duct tape ducks, colored eggs, floppy bows and an abundance of perky bunny ears.
