Celebrating Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade where grown men in sequined suits and massive feather costumes dance down Broad Street for 10 hours every New Year’s Day since the 1800s—Irish, Swedish, and Italian immigrant traditions blended into chaotic spectacle where families spend all year hand-crafting costumes with thousands of hours creating eight-foot shoulder pieces covered in rhinestones and feathers. Mummers represent working-class people creating beauty, spectacle, and joy on their own ter

Philadelphia Mummers Parade