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.

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)

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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.

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:

Vintage Easter Blog Posts 1920s-1960s (Archived)

Liz 🙂

1950s vintage easter ad for Dubble Bubble gum.

(Updated Post: March 2024)

The Easter Parade is an event consisting of a festive strolling procession on Easter Sunday with participates usually wearing their best Easter finery that normally consisted of the best of modern clothes and hats of that time.

Easter Parade-Toronto’s Oldest Tradition that is really all about the Hats!

History of the Easter Parade in Toronto

Toronto’s Easter Parade is one of its oldest Traditions, starting in the early 1900’s along the waterfront at Sunnyside Park.

Fashion was very important and in an article written on April 26th, 1914 in the Toronto World Newspaper an amusing headline appeared…. Are women of Toronto behind New Yorkers in style? The accompanying caption (for the pic below) reads: “The fashion show on Fifth Avenue, Easter Sunday – in the foreground a mandarin jacket of ruffled taffeta, straight-brimmed hat, trimmed with wing rows – a brocaded crepe coat is shown in centre.”

New York Easter Parade-1914

1914 Vintage Photo of the New York Easter Parade

Image courtesy of Toronto Archives

Yes the women in this New York picture looking amazingly fashionable but were the Toronto women that far behind in fashion? Not really!

Easter weekend in Toronto can be cold, which may account for why the Easter parades in our city were perhaps a bit more humble than New York’s 5th Avenue event (not 100% sure though). The photograph below from 1924 shows Toronto flappers in their Easter finery parading along the Sunnyside boardwalk in their warm jackets (Toronto Archives). I think they look pretty amazing even WITH their jackets on.

1920s Vintage Photo from the Toronto Easter Parade. 1924 shows Toronto flappers in their Easter finery parading along the Sunnyside boardwalk in their warm 1920s coats.

In 1922 an amusement park opened up at Sunnyside park and the Easter Parade became a more structured event, complete with sponsors and prizes.

1920s Vintage Photo of women in 1920s clothing walking down the Sunnyside Park boardwalk in Toronto, Canada -1922

But by the early 1950’s the amusement park had shut down and with it went the Sunnyside Easter Parade. However the parade was not gone for ever and it was reborn on Bloor Street till about the middle of the 1960’s where it then moved East to the Beaches and has remained there ever since. Very cool!

Now before we move onto the next section, lets see some more vintage 1920s images from the Easter Parade on April 17th, 1927 (I love my photos!).

1920s Toronto Easter Parade Image showcasing 1920s Fashion. April 1927

Source: Toronto Archives

I’m here all day long for this STUNNING 1920s image of 2 ladies in their own version of a men’s 1920s Tuxedo. Men’s fashion for women is so on trend for any year!

STUNNING 1920s image of 2 ladies in their own version of a men's 1920s Tuxedo at the Toronto Easter Parade.

Source: Toronto Archives

Eeek! I don’t think this couple could get any better looking in this 1920s Photo.

1920s photo of a stylish 1920s man and woman strolling in the Toronto Easter Parade. 1920s Fashions on Display

Source: Toronto Archives

Never mind the hats! Can we talk about these 2 women’s 1920s jackets? So Beautiful!

1920s Photo of 2 women in 1920s Jackets and 1920s hats at the Toronto Easter Parade

Source: Toronto Archives

Toronto was clearly very stylish in the 1920s. Yooza!

Source: Toronto Archives

There is the history of the Toronto Easter Parade but now onto the most important part of the parade…the hats!

So what does one wear on their head to the “Easter Parade”?

Vintage Shopping: I have created an Etsy Collection of Vintage Hats that would be perfect for Easter or any occasion. It is updated monthly.

(NOTE: These hats WERE available at time of posting / or update. Please use these as inspirations if sold out and make sure to visit Etsy as they are updated daily with loads of new vintage hats & other vintage items).

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

The Vintage Hats

Straw hats are so lovely for Spring and Summer, I have a couple different kinds and I love them. Here is a 1950s platter / straw hat with pretty flowers. The label reads: “Karen Isabel Original”