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2. 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.

3. Suit - Wikipedia

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   U.S. Ambassador to the U.N Samantha Power and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin wearing business wear suits as per their gender, 2016. The word suit derives from the French suite, [3] meaning "following," from some Late Latin derivative form of the Latin verb sequor = "I follow," because the component garments (jacket and trousers and waistcoat) follow each other and have the same cloth and ...

4. History of suits - Wikipedia

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   Leading European men began wearing well-cut, tailored suits recognizable today. The simplicity of the new clothes and their somber colors contrasted strongly with the extravagant, foppish styles just before. Brummell's influence introduced the modern era of men's clothing which now includes the modern suit jacket, full-length pants, and necktie ...

5. Suit jacket - Wikipedia

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   The 1870s saw the birth of the suit, which at first was met with great skepticism and viewed primarily as leisure wear. [4] In particular, which came into fashion in the late 1870s, a suit in a large plaid with rolled to the knee pants. [5] Since 1860, all the components of the suit began to be sewn from a uniform fabric.

6. Pantsuit - Wikipedia

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   A pantsuit, also known as a trouser suit outside the United States, is a woman's suit of clothing consisting of pants and a matching or coordinating coat or jacket. In the past, the prevailing fashion for women included some form of a coat, paired with a skirt or dress—hence the name pantsuit .

7. B. Altman and Company - Wikipedia

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   The store that would become B. Altman and Company began on Manhattan's Lower East Side as a family-owned store, which by 1865 had come to be solely owned by Benjamin Altman, one of the brothers in the family, [3] and was located at Third Avenue and 10th Street.