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Tag: Easter Parade

All Things Easter from the 1920s-60s Part 2

Happy Easter Friends!

For today’s post I’m going to carry on the theme I started last year, with a roundup of all things that fall under the category, “Vintage Easter”. This will include photos, ads, kitschy vintage Easter items for sale and anything else I can find. Of course it’s all from the 1920’s to the 1960’s.

Okay friends let’s begin the Easter fun!


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Vintage Easter Shopping: I have a collection of Vintage Easter items for sale on Etsy that I update monthly. Happy Shopping!


Vintage Easter Images, Advertising, Recipes & More-Part 2!

1920’s – 1960’s

1950s Vintage Photo: Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957.

1950s Vintage Image of Easter egg race winners, Gatineau Park, Quebec, 1957
Source: Tumblr

Yummy Easter Egg Cake with Recipe (1953). Main ingredients: Swans Down Yellow Cake Mix and Baker’s Unsweetened Chocolate.

If any of my readers end up making this cake please let me know how it was!

FURTHER READING: Vintage Cooking Recipes as seen in Vintage Ads from the 1930s-1950s & Vintage Easter Advertising – The Food

1950s Vintage Food Advertisement / 1950s Easter Advertising featuring a 1953 Easter Egg cake recipe
Source: Tumblr

Easter Sunday, 1950 vintage photo featuring a very stylish woman all dressed up in her Easter best.

Further Reading: Do You Have An Easter Parade Hat?

John W. Mosley - Easter Sunday, c. 1950 vintage image of a Black woman all dressed up in a stylish 1950s coat and 1950s hat with fur.
Source: Tumblr

Blog Post by the Vintage Inn: Let’s do the Bunny Hop!

History, images and videos of everyone’s favourite holiday dance craze…The Bunny Hop!

The Bunny Hop history by the vintageinn blog

1940s vintage photo: “Then the Easter Eggs danced.” Easter Party held by Glen Taylor School, Walnut Creek, California in 1949 via Life Magazine.

1940s Vintage Photo: "Then the Easter Eggs danced." Easter Party held by Glen Taylor School, Walnut Creek, California in 1949 via Life Magazine.
Source: Retro Musings

“Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs” -Vintage 1940s Children’s Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz.

Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs Vintage 1940s Children's Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz
Source: Etsy
Mr. Bunny Paints the Eggs Vintage 1940s Children's Book by Lee Maril Illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz
Source: Etsy

1920s fashions on dispaly in this vintage Easter image from Washington, D.C. “Easter Sunday, 1925.”

1920s Vintage Photo: 1920s fashions on dispaly in this vintage Easter image from Washington, D.C. "Easter Sunday, 1925."
Source: National Photo Co

Milky Ways…my favourite! 1950s vintage Easter ad.

1950s Vintage Advertisement: Easter Ad for Milky Ways
Source: Pinterest

In London, the Easter eggs are bigger (1936). Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs.

Easter Shopping in London 1936. Cute 1930s photo of a 2 young girls holding giant Easter eggs.
Source: Tumblr

Easter egg colouring kit, 1940s.

Vintage Easter Egg Colouring Kit 1940
Source: Found in Mom’s Basement

Easter Greeting Card vintage ad from 1949 for ‘American Greeting Cards’.

Easter Greeting Card vintage ad from 1949 for 'American Greeting Cards'.
Source: Pinterest

Video of the famous NYC Easter Parade (1950).

Easter in Chicago, 1941. Fantastic 1940s hats, dresses and shoes!

Easter Parade Chicago 1941 featuring 3 well dressed Black women in 1940s hats, 1940s coats and 1940s dresses. Including fantastic stylish 1940s shoes.
Source: get bent

Easter Favourites…Chocolate! What is your fav treat during this time of the year? Share in the comments below.

Late 1930s early 1940s chocolate advertisement for Whitman's Chocolates. Vintage Ad.
Source: Found in my mom’s basement

Once again, Happy Easter! I hope you all have a lovely weekend doing whatever you traditionally (or not so traditonally do). I’m off to see the families, so lots of driving all over Ontario. Good thing I will have all that chocolate to keep my energy up.

FURTHER READING:

Take care everyone!

Liz

Do You Have An Easter Parade Hat? Vintage Hat Inspiration

As I’m writing this post, I’m making the finishing touches on my trip to Las Vegas for the Viva Rockabilly Weekend and quickly realizing that Easter is this weekend. Mmm chocolate eggs, getting together with family, mmm chocolate eggs lol! 🙂 Easter will be spent in Vegas again but my parents are coming to the weekend as well so that should be a fun and different experience for us.

1920s Vintage Magazine Article on 1920s Fashions...1920s Hats for Easter. "Easter Hats from the Studio of a Chic Designer". Article from a 1928 Women's World magazine.

Source: eBay 1928 Women’s World magazine featuring 1920s Easter Hats from the Studio of a Chic Designer.

For this year I thought it would be fun to pack a pretty fascinator for Sunday night so I can have my own Easter Parade at Viva as I always miss the one that was usually put on here in Toronto. Sadly the event is not officially happening this year but I’m still paying homage to the Easter Parade tradition on my end.

Further Reading: Easter Parade-Toronto’s oldest tradition that is really all about the Hats! (super vintage photos of people in the 1920’s in Toronto & more vintage hat examples)

Now if I could have packed a big hat I would have brought my green one below but my suitcase is all ready jammed to the hills so I had to think teeny tiny small and so I’m bringing my recent vintage clothing show find, also below.

1950s vintage hat - 1950s saucer hat 1950s platter hat.
1950s hair headband

For today’s post I thought it would be fun to show off some fantastic examples of vintage hats that would be perfect for an Easter parade or any event / occasion.

Let’s pick a hat for the parade!

Vintage hat examples to inspire your next purchase

Here are some other options of beautiful hats that I found online that I would 100% wear if I had the space and all the money in the world.

Vintage Shopping: I have created an Etsy Collection of Vintage Hats that would be perfect for Easter or any occasion. It is updated monthly, so even though these hats are gone there are many more to enjoy!

(Updated March 2024)


Disclosure: Some of the links on my blog from Etsy , eBay, are Affiliate Links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase. 

Note: If you click on an item and it is no longer available, don’t fret! The websites provided are updated daily with 1000’s of products, so you are bound to find something that will work.


1950s vintage black hat. Woman’s wide brim platter hat accented with a perfect white rose. Hat label- ” Barbara Dale Chicago”.

Looks like mine pictured above.

1950s black hat. Woman's wide brim ( 4 1/4 in.) platter hat accented with a perfect white rose. Shallow crown of the 50s ( or late 40s) black hat is encircled with black velvet ribbon which ties on the right.

Source: Etsy

1940s Vintage Hat. Woman’s 1940s brown percher hat with dramatic feather accent off to the right.

1940s vintage tilt hat. Woman's 1940s brown percher hat with dramatic feather accent off to the right.

Source: Etsy

1940s Women’s Tilt Hat with bird feathers.

This number for sale from Etsy seller ‘concettascloset‘, is beautiful and really a showpiece I must say.

1940s wool tilt hat. 1940s Vintage Women's hat with a giant birds wing.

I think the colour of this 1940s number is perfect for an “Easter Parade/aka spring is finally” here hat.

1940s wool felt hat in pink. Women's 1940s hat.

I’m a blonde so wearing this yellow 1950s hat would really never work but I was so drawn to the uniqueness of it that I had to share it with you.

1950s wool felt hat in yellow with feathers on the side.

This 1950s pillbox hat is so Liz it is ridiculous! Sadly the price does not work with my budget but I will add it to my “I would buy it if I had all the money in the world” wish list.

1950s pillbox hat in Green with a bow.

The cutout detail on this lavender 1940s hat is wonderful and so very different and I just love how the trim meets that cutout. Very creative and perfect for strolling down the avenue.

You can purchase this on Etsy from “TimelessTreasuresVCB

1940s Purple velvet wide brimmed hat for women

I think I will end this blog with the most interesting option for an Easter Parade hat that I have ever seen. It is a 1940s Caspar-Davis creation and it so different and strange but yet beautiful that you would really truly stand out if you wore this on Easter. What are your thoughts on this hat? Would you wear it?

You can purchase this on Etsy from “Poppycock Vintage

1940s vintage hat for women. 1940s Caspar-Davis creation featuring feathers.

So friends! Do you wear an Easter Hat? Or attend an Easter Parade during this time of the year? Share in the comments section below.

Well no matter what you are doing this year have a very Happy Easter and I will be back with highlights from my Vegas/Viva trip in one week.

FURTHER READING:

Liz 🙂

1950s vintage easter ad for Dubble Bubble gum.