Fifth Avenue may be pawsitively beige for Easter.
Twin dogs will be posing as dandies at this year’s Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival, wearing$ 125 best clothes complete with phony fur bunny ears and colorful clothes.
“Kimba’s the light one, so he’s going to have white bear lips, and Bogie’s the black one, so black people. Each helmet takes about one day]to create ] from start to finish”, said the dogs ‘ owner, pet couture, and clothing designer.
“I chose the daddy style because it’s so appropriate and glossy.” I always associate the portrayals of vintage Hollywood musicals, which have usually delighted me, with Easter Sunday dress.
The, which dates back to the 1870s, runs along Fifth Avenue from East 49th to East 57th Street, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. on Easter Sunday.
Rubio, a Bronx local, has walked in the rally with his hair children, who are now 12, since they were six months old — and was one of the first to provide pups.
“When we first went, there were none. Citizens were like,’ You dressed the dogs? What are you doing?’ And then, nobody loves this”, Rubio told The Post.
Over the years, he’s befriended visitors in the group it” who are dazzled and bewildered” by his dogs ‘ beautiful costumes.
“They expect the people to get dressed, but when they see the dogs, they gather all the children and want to take photos with them”, he explained.
He’s actually seen stars at the rally, who often go undetected amidst all the hype, like Bernadette Peters, the, and” Saturday Night Live” cast people.
“There’s so much going on that people don’t even realize when there’s a celebrity right under their nose”, he said.
On the individual side, took three days to create her parade hat — made of grass, tissue paper rose, silk flowers, false limes, and foam and feathered butterflies and animals— which she said did retail for $3, 000 to $5, 000.
She said,”I handcraft the flowers that are on the front of the helmet. I dye crepe paper, hand-cut each layer, and bit it all together to make the rose,” says the artist.
DePasquale, 53, who creates clothes for movie, TV, and Broadway, may be marching with her father.
“We love to come. It’s one of my favourite activities in New York”, she said. “There’s plenty of creative citizens”.
She did meet up with friends like Patricia Parenti, who has attended since the 1980s and is sporting a tiara from Headdress NY artist.
“It’s a bunny who is wearing a hat adorned with spring flowers and butterflies”, she explained of the creation, which retails for $500.
Mattress- Stuy resident Grace Abbott has been participating in the parade for near to a decade — and this year, her 6- year- older daughter, Lucy, did move alongside her for the first time.
The mother- daughter duo will wear matching bonnets for the occasion, which Abbott, 37, said is “like my Super Bowl”.
“It’s something that I look forward to every year, to make just something super badass, where whatever you want and have a ball”, she said.
The native of Arizona enjoys observing the “level of craftsmanship” in the original ensembles of the participants and recognizing the veterans that come to mind each year.
To craft her bonnets, including another for a friend who will be coming, she used straw hats and cut up a chiffon curtain, and added tissue paper, velvet, jewels, pipe cleaners, and fake flowers.
She spent seven hours working on the project, which she completed at a discount store, which ended up costing her$ 50 overall.
“I don’t really go for the extreme Easter effect. Some people do a lot of the eggs and the bunnies”, she said.
“Mine’s more, I have a time to make this beautiful hat and I’m going to use it”.