The Hootchie Koo was a term first used to describe belly dance. This form of dancing first appeared in North America at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Performed by a dancer named Little Egypt, an uncorseted stomach shimmying and shaking around was consider extremely suggestive by members of the Victorian era. Soon after, it came to describe any sort of sexualized, scandalous dancing.
I found this rad picture of Little Egypt here
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