Inside the Rex den: The history and floats of N.O.'s most celebrated parade
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Here is an elaborate invitation from 1888 designed in France. As you can see to the left, officials found one of the fairies to the left to be inappropriate, so they decided to censor it with a bit of white paint.
Beginning in the 1920s, the invitations became much less elaborate, Hales said.
