The Fashion Review (1912) Online

The Fashion Review (1912) Online

The Easter parade, the proud pageant of clothes, on the Boardwalk, Atlantic City, is more than an interesting exhibition of miles of style; it is a psychological study of colors and patterns and their influence and reflection on the minds and manners of their wearers. Spring hasn't dressed its new blossoms in any grander garb or with a more alluring distribution of tints than our American fathers and husbands have this year provided for the feminine percentage of the population. After the parade itself has told its illustrated story, something like a few hundred feet of fashion film, showing every item of apparel society will wear in 1912, from what they call hats to shoesies. Hats that are familiarly characterized as "dreams" by the women, and as nightmares by the men, soft, clinging little things whose names we don't know, direct from the most fashionable and expensive shops of Paris, skirts and other relations of feminine apparel; one of the models who showed them off to such ...