Polka 211, which evokes the uncorking of champagne bottles. Other composers who wrote music in the style of the polka were Jaromír Weinberger, Dmitri Shostakovich and Igor Stravinsky. In the United States, Polka is promoted by the International Polka Association based in Chicago, which works to preserve the cultural heritage of polka music and to honor its musicians through the Polka Hall of Fame. Polka is also popular in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Beer Barrel Polka is played during the seventh inning stretch and halftime of Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks games. Polka is also the official State Dance of Wisconsin.
Polonaise (clothing) an underskirt, sometimes with a waistcoat effect. This could be draped or undraped. In July 1894, "The Sydney Mail" stated: The polonaise underwent another revival in the mid-late 1910s. A 1914 newspaper advert for McCall Patterns found in the "Evening Independent" announced the 'redingote polonaise' to be the height of fashion in Paris and New York. The "Reading Eagle" ran a fashion column in November 1915 describing the polonaise of 1914/15 as a French design consisting of a long coat-like overdress of metallic lace or elaborately decorated sheer fabric worn over a plain underdress. Another version of the polonaise was