Easter Parade (celebration)

The Easter Parade ( Dutch : Easter Parade Easter or walk) is an American usage dating back to the nineteenth century and that has its origins in New York . Went to that city - apparently spontaneous - walkers dressed in their Sunday best, the streets - on the morning of Easter Sunday parade. In New York, the event focused on 5th Avenue, where it has since still occurs. Afterwards use emerged in many other US cities. The Easter parade reached a peak in the first half of the twentieth century . New York took in 1947about 1 million people participated in the parade. Since then, the interest in the event decreased. In 2014 in New York still walked around thirty thousand people participated.

The tradition of the Easter parade is linked to the traditional Easter processions, which in turn went back to the entry into Jerusalem of Jesus . More obvious seems to be the explanation for the phenomenon in the tradition that people for the feast of Easter in the new clothes tasks. The Easter parade therefore has no specific religious connotations, but seems to be more intended to show himself in his best clothes, in English known as synecdoche , easter bonnet (Easter hat) respectively.

In the film Easter Parade, with Judy Garland and Fred Astaire , in 1948 the event plays an important role.