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2. Kariba suit - Wikipedia

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   Michael Manley in a short-sleeved Kariba suit, 1970s. A Kariba or Kareeba suit is a two-piece suit for men created by Jamaican designer Ivy Ralph, mother of Sheryl Lee Ralph, in the early 1970s to be worn on business and formal occasions as a Caribbean replacement for the European-style suit and a visual symbol of decolonisation. [1]

3. Leisure suit - Wikipedia

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   Leisure Suit Convention in 1993 A man wearing a "Hawaiian" leisure suit in 2007. Leisure suits originated on the west coast of the US in the late 1930s as summer casual-wear for the wealthy, [3] possibly derived from the heavy tweed Norfolk jacket or khaki safari jacket worn by English sportsmen. [4]

4. Mao suit - Wikipedia

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   Chinese tunic suit ("Zhongshan"/"Mao suit") Sun Yat-sen. The modern Chinese tunic suit is a style of male attire originally known in China as the Zhongshan suit (simplified Chinese: 中山装; traditional Chinese: 中山裝; pinyin: Zhōngshān zhuāng) after the republican leader Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan).

5. Suit - Wikipedia

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   A suit, also called a lounge suit, business suit, dress suit, or formal suit is a set of clothes comprising a suit jacket and trousers of identical textiles generally worn with a collared dress shirt, necktie, and dress shoes. A skirt suit is similar, but with a matching skirt instead of trousers. It is currently considered semi-formal wear or ...

6. Nehru jacket - Wikipedia

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   Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh (left) wearing a Nehru jacket as the top half of a suit, meeting Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in Sanya, China, April 2011. Unlike the achkan, which falls somewhere below the knees of the wearer, the Nehru jacket is shorter. Jawaharlal Nehru, notably, never wore this type of Nehru jacket. [a] [2]

7. Zoot suit - Wikipedia

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   A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit [1]) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. It is most notable for its use as a cultural symbol among the Hepcat and Pachuco subcultures.