The closure of Men’s Fashion Center, ... Pink polyester zoot suits disappear from gentrifying D.C. September 14, 2012. ... red or purple, ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, the five-day period in June 1943 when servicemen stalked the streets of Los Angeles attacking Mexican American zoot suiters.

The Estrella family brought us the original El Pachuco Zoot Suits. ... was a World War II veteran with a Purple ... They started to get requests from men's clothing stores to carry the Zoot Suit.

Head wraps and zoot suits African-American style has always gone much deeper than fashion By Rosalind Alexander • October 9, 2006 12:00 am ...

To some men, the suit’s ostentatiousness was a way of refusing to be ignored. The garment had “profound political meaning,” wrote Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man .

The 1943 Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles are a prime example of the ... Tensions came to a head after a fight between a number of U.S. sailors and young Mexican-American men in zoot suits.

The zoot suits had since the 1930s been associated with black jazz culture, and the riots gave it an air of criminality. The sight of zoot-suited youths on a corner came to terrify the urban ...

Decked out in baggy suits, their watch chains swinging to the mambo as feathers bop atop their wide-brimmed hats, Mexico’s “pachucos” are keeping alive the tradition of the zoot suit — and ...

For LACMA's new exhibition on men's fashion through the years, the curators really wanted to get hold of a real zoot suit from the World War II era. Zoot suits were such a strong fashion statement ...

The zoot suit in particular is special because of its extreme rarity. Suits like this were worn typically by African American, Hispanic and Italian men in the eastern U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s.

Luckily, men have become reacquainted with their tailor and you’re unlikely to see a baggy, ill-fitting suit on the red carpet. By the Noughties, suits became simpler, chicer and more streamlined.