They are likely to find what they’re looking for in the rows of zoot suits -- long coats with impossibly ... “She cooks, she irons, she argues with me,” Duran says. He attended segregated ...

It was June of 1943 — the start of the Zoot Suit Riots — and Victor Silva was ... as if to escort them. “It hit me right in the head at that moment,” recalled Silva, of Hermosa Beach.

On June 3, 1943, an altercation between U.S. Navy sailors and young Mexican Americans on the streets of Los Angeles led to ...

He brought the fully restored, mint-condition classic car, that he affectionately named Marilyn Monroe, to show at the Zoot Suit Pachanga ... Memories Car Club, stood near his prized possession ...

On Aug. 1, 1942, 19-year-old Hank Leyvas and a group of his friends from L.A.'s 38th Street crashed a party near a swimming ... the wearing of zoot suits on LA streets. SEND ME YOUR TIPS: If ...

To some degree this is true of the zoot suit ... “drape” suit silhouette. Many Black and brown men did not have access to tailors and altered their clothing at home from hand-me-downs ...

The Mexican Zoot suit, or Pachuco, was brought into the 21st ... The classic look was perfect ahead of his No Me Quiero Ir De Aquí residency in PR. We love that all three men — Maluma ...

These youths, one stripped of his clothes and the others badly beaten, were victimized by police officers who scoured the streets of Los Angeles on June 7, 1943, ferreting out and beating zoot ...

A resolution condemning the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, days of violence and attacks against Mexican American community during a dark chapter in Los Angeles' history, was approved Friday by the City ...

It is adopted by bandleaders and jazz musicians who add bold ties in colorful prints. The zoot suit, colloquially known in its era as “drapes,” was, by most accounts, made prominent by African ...