From the zoot suit to Z-boys, sunshine has influenced Los Angeles style as much as haute couture. By Nadra Nittle Aug 20, 2019, 8:20am PDT This story is part of a group of stories called .

“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 ...

Shortly before the Zoot Suit Riots, Duran married his girlfriend, Helen, and after the riots he was off to the war. He served in military hospitals in Africa and Europe, processing wounded soldiers.

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.

The zoot suit was vilified by L.A. authorities during the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943. But its dandy-ish profile continues to influence fashion.

Phyllis Estrella helped launch the Pachuco lifestyle and continues doing so till this day. The Estrella family brought us the original El Pachuco Zoot Suits. Read more here at Lowrider Magazine.

Actual Zoot Suit Riots, in which servicemen battled with Chicano gang members (known as “zoot suiters”), ... They didn’t have a car or even food but, boy, did they have the look.

The return of Luis Valdez’s groundbreaking musical “Zoot Suit” to the Mark Taper Forum is less of a theatrical milestone than it is a major cultural event. Centered on the events around the ...

Amid the great and grotesque "isms" battling for primacy in World War II, a curious ideological contest was fought out in America: the epic struggle over the zoot suit. Was the fashion, as singer ...