The zoot suit was vilified by L.A. authorities during the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943. ... “Every boy or girl who buys such a garment and every person who sells it,” the head of the WPB stated, ...

The first victims of the zoot suit riots — 12 and 13-year-old boys — were guilty of little more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Teenage boys wearing zoot suits walk down a city street in 1943, attracting attention from military and civilian passersby in more standard street wear. The “unpatriotic" baggy outfits were seen ...

Dad grew up in Boyle Heights, and like lots of Mexican American boys and young men in the 1940s, he really wanted a zoot suit — those flashy outfits with tapered, high-waisted pants, fingertip ...

“While some of the boys were sent to prison, the girls were sent to reformatory school, which in some cases was worse.” Of course, as the title suggests, Lizard in a Zoot Suit has a further ...

Zoot Suit, United States, 1940–42, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Ellen A. Michelson; De Luxe Hollyvogue for Lundahl Clothing Co., Necktie, c. 1945, Los ...

The zoot suit used a lot of fabric since it was oversized. One news article stated, "Every boy who buys such a garment and every person who sells it is really doing an unpatriotic deed. ...

The Zoot Suit Riots erupted in June 1943, when groups of white sailors and soldiers clashed with young Mexican American men who wore flamboyant zoot suits—a style characterized by high-waisted, ...