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The bunny hug was a dancing style performed by young people, in the early 20th century.

The bunny hug was performed to the music of America's great ragtime composers.

They introduced the 'Bunny Hug' in a magazine article.

The bunny hug, like other "animal" dances, caused a lot of uproar in polite society.

Soon couples were dancing the turkey-trout and bunny hug as older folks wondered what this younger generation was coming to.

Items we have offered in the past are bunny hugs, shorts, long and short sleeve T shirts, and sweat pants.

In 1914, Germany introduced a dance entitled "the rabbit dance" which was said to be just like the American bunny hug.

They went abroad and in mid-ocean sent a wireless to the magazine to change the Bunny Hug to the 'Foxtrot'.

In one sequence, Bunny performs a (at the time) new and popular dance, the Bunny Hug.

Those were days of ferment in the city's dance halls: the bunny hug and the grizzly bear were being supplanted by the one-step.

The term "bunny hug" is also used in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan to refer to hooded sweatshirts or 'hoodies'.

Bunny hug: elsewhere hoodie or hooded sweat shirt (mainly in Saskatchewan, but also in Manitoba)

With time, came the development of dance styles then considered shocking, such as the Charleston, the Shimmy, the Bunny Hug, and the Black Bottom.

Apparently Castle later renamed the Bunny Hug the Fox-trot, hoping to convince the public that he invented the Foxtrot dance.

Though the bunny hug lives on and the turkey trot is still green in the memory of some old-time dancers, the other so-called animal dances have long been forgotten.

Bunny Dips Into Society, also known as Bunny and the Bunny Hug, is a short American silent comedy film.

They depict New York in the heyday of vaudeville theaters and Tin Pan Alley, of dances like the turkey trot, bunny hug and lame duck.

It started in San Francisco, along with the Bunny Hug and Texas Tommy and was also done on the Staten Island ferry boats in the 1900s.

The dance abandoned the restraint and refinement of waltz and polka; Bunny Hug, Turkey Trot, Fox Trot, and Shimmey began to reign.

It was reported that one of the reasons former President Woodrow Wilson's inaugural ball was cancelled was because of his "disapproval of such modern dances as the turkey trot, the grizzly bear and the bunny hug".

Despite the club's rumored reputation, archived photos show well-dressed adolescent couples enjoying a harmless night of dancing while doing dances like the Turkey Trot, the Bunny Hug, Grizzly Bear, and the Texas Tommy.

The Coney Island landmark, about 270 feet tall, was erected in Flushing Meadows for the 1939 World's Fair, where it shared a lakeside site with rides like the Drive-a-Drome, the Stratoship and the Bunny Hug.

At one point, Mr. Price and Lynn Bishel of Middletown, dancing to taped music, segued from the squirrel step to the chicken scratch and then, without missing a step, into the grizzly bear, the bunny hug and the turkey trot.

The Vitagraph comedy short Bunny Dips Into Society features scenes of comedian John Bunny performing the Bunny Hug; the film was also released under the title Bunny and the Bunny Hug.

These are a few examples: The Shimmy, The Grind, The Turkey Trot, The Bunny Hug, The Texas Tommy, The Cakewalk... Almost all these dances originated in the black community in the United States, and some moved over into white society.