Weather conditions in the slums led members to incorporate steel-toed leather boots, with wealthier members wearing silk scarves and starched collars with metal tie buttons, wearing their distinctive attire was easily recognizable by the townspeople, rival police and gang members.
The wives, girlfriends and mistresses of the gang members were known to wear luxurious clothes, and they themselves made, sewed and traded the clothes, being sold in tailor shops, and some of them, their parents, were the tailors who secretly sold the luxurious clothes.
Pearl necklaces, silks, fur stoles and colorful scarves were quite common.
After they had established control over their territory at the end of the 19th century, they began to expand their criminal enterprise , their main activities included protection schemes, fraud, bribery, smuggling, kidnapping, theft and manipulation of horse racing and bets.