There are numerous clothes racks bearing dresses and gaucho costumes, there are men in underclothes, and women demurely manoeuvring bras off or on.
Now came two horses, both bearing kids dressed as cowboys, in heavy woolly chaps, pearl-button Western shirts, limp bandannas, big hats, and boots.
Then he added new spectacles like camel and elephant races, and lavish pageantry like the Congress of Monarchs, a glittering procession of carriages bearing performers dressed as the crowned heads of the world.
They seemed genuinely surprised, though, when a delegation of their own children came onstage, all smartly dressed, bearing bouquets.
Throughout the culture, there are imitations of the gait, bearing, and dress of the black body, a vampiric "everything but the burden" co-option of black life.
He rode out Sunday with an honor guard of six flag-bearing riders dressed as Hussars, the famous Hungarian light cavalry, as tens of thousands screamed.
PREVIOUSLY: As we wrote Monday, Katy Perry shot a video with Elmo for 'Sesame Street,' wearing a cleavage-bearing dress, that hit the web but had yet to air on TV.
And before Michelle Obama caused a stir by showing off her bare arms, Francis Folsom Cleveland ruffled the feathers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in the late 1880s with her shoulder-bearing dresses.
Category favorite Catherine Martin is a two-time Oscar winner, and she dressed Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in their best 1920s evening wear for "The Great Gatsby," but do we really think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences -- a group of voters comprised largely of old, white males -- will pass up the chance to reward "Hustle" and its cleavage-bearing dresses?
Charlotte, Clinton's two-year-old granddaughter, had donned a dress bearing her campaign logo: an H with a forward-facing arrow.
