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Cab Calloway wears a white zoot suit in a lobby card for the 1943 musical film Stormy Weather. African American man in zoot suit in the 1940s. A young Malcolm X, who wore zoot suits in his youth, described the zoot suit as: "a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats, and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell". [42]
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots [1] that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed in Southern California and young Latino and Mexican American city residents. [2]
What became known as the “McIntosh Suit” was a regional term in southern California for a suit that was one’s personal best. [4] The most popular MacIntosh suits featured gray colors with blue pinstripes constructed of gabardine material and wool material for winter suits. [4] Wearers of the zoot suits had different reasons for wearing them.
From bold-colored scarves to the zoot suit in Harlem to the mass popularity of bold acrylic nails, Black culture in […]
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The zoot suit was the most salient identifying feature of "pachuquismo", a Mexican American youth subculture. This subculture emerged during a time of increased racism and the fight for Mexican American rights and equality within American society. Both men and women wore the fingertip coats, but for women it became more than just a style.
Founded in the 1920s, the 38th Street Gang dates back to the pachucos and zoot suits and was formed at the border between South Central and the city of Vernon. The 38th Street Gang became well known in the 1940s in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial. Sleepy Lagoon was a popular swimming hole in what is now East Los Angeles.
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