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The custom weaves together music, poetic verse and foot percussion — petticoated dancers in swoopy skirts elaborately stomping out rhythms on a wooden platform.

Tia Alicia appeared in a petticoated dress, carrying a parasol against the mild winter sun.

The Cincinnati Times-Star found them hilarious, remarking that “not even an aviator could equal the antics of the petticoated elevator artists.”

But they continued, did these same refractory females, to overcome obstacles, leap social hurdles, make mock of antique taboos, and otherwise disport themselves as if they were free individuals, and not petticoated with absurd prejudices.

The church of San Juan de Dios, not far off, is filled with tawdry rubbish, petticoated crucifixes, etc.