“I would wear men’s style shoes — wing tips — with baggy pants ... and then wear a tight top, like a halter top.” Like the evolution of the zoot suit, it marked a way of taking a trend ...

During the first half of the 20th century, new fashion trends often permeated culture by starting at the top and trickling down to the masses over time. To some degree this is true of the zoot ...

Reports from the time explain that white residents saw men in zoot suits as "menacing street thugs ... style by wearing its trademark threads — baggy trousers and long jackets with padded ...

Zoot suit pants legs were ... For over a week, white U.S. soldiers and sailors traversed Los Angeles beating up allegedly “unpatriotic” Mexican-American men, identifiable by their ...

This was a time of excess – think of The Great Gatsby – so drab suits just wouldn’t do. Men increasingly wore tuxedos with white waistcoats ... continued rise of zoot suits.

The young men wore zoot suits, and second-generation Mexican ... neighborhood set the stage for conflict: White sailors complained that the baggy outfits of their Latino neighbors flouted wartime ...

As Mariana Viera notes for Teen Vogue, “the suit was an open rejection of the moral codes propagated by sanctimonious white ... men before them who resisted assimilation. Pachucos evolved from ...

Los Angeles County officials along with the city council have issued an apology for the "shameful" Zoot Suit ... white, uniform servicemen attacked young Mexican, Latino, Filipino and Black men ...

Calloway appeared in a billowing white zoot suit in the hit 1943 movie ... "I would wear men's style shoes — wing tips — with baggy pants ... and then wear a tight top, like a halter top." ...