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“Kids are now wearing their botas to school or their tejanas and starched jeans.”

Calibre 50’s “Corrido de Juanito” plays on the TV, a sorrowful song rich with accordion about not being able to return to Mexico but still wearing a tejana and botas in the U.S.

But can Hollywood finally give us the botas?

“The art is Little Mr. E with a cowboy hat, some botas and he’s a paletero man, walking his cart,” the creator says.

He blew it up, his cheeks puffing ahead of the wine-skin, and stood on the bota holding on to a chair.