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The suits were first associated with African-Americans in communities such as Harlem, [15] Chicago, and Detroit in the 1930s, [15] but were made popular nationwide by Jazz and Jump Blues musicians in the 1940s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "zoot" probably comes from African American Vernacular English and reduplication ...
Zoot suits were the standard in Harlem in the late 1930s after young Black and Latino men loosened up the London “drape” suit. ... National Museum of African American History and Culture on ...
Actress Mary Pickford with President Herbert Hoover, 1931. The most characteristic North American fashion trend from the 1930s to 1945 was attention at the shoulder, with butterfly sleeves and banjo sleeves, and exaggerated shoulder pads for both men and women by the 1940s.
1940s in fashion may refer to: 1930–45 in fashion; 1945–60 in fashion This page was last edited on 20 May 2022, at 13:56 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Fashion designer Virgil Abloh walks the runway during the Off-White show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2018/2019 on March 1, 2018 in Paris, France.
Throughout the 20th century, fashion influenced — and was influenced by — the culture and social movements of its time, across global and hyperlocal spaces.
Zoot suit fashion found its origins in the urban black scene during the 1940s. [26] This style of clothing cultivated a sense of racial pride and significance; however, the fashion statement soon made its way into the wardrobes of young Southern Californian Mexican Americans, Italians and Filipinos, who became the quintessential wearers of the ...
Fashion during the 1940s — clothing designed and/or popular in the 1940s. Also fashion designers and clothing companies active during the decade. The main articles for this category are 1930–1945 in Western fashion and 1945–1960 in Western fashion .