And as the zoot suit became popular in the Jazz community, the style continued to gain national recognition. However, like many fashion trends in the 20th century associated with African and ...

It is adopted by bandleaders and jazz musicians who add bold ties in colorful prints. The zoot suit, colloquially known in its era as “drapes,” was, by most accounts, made prominent by African ...

The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racist attacks ... flamboyant suits that were donned by some of the biggest jazz musicians of the era. Note: The Times’ digital archives go back only to ...

The zoot suit, with its relaxed, flowing lines, was a departure from structured menswear of the 1930s and 40s and became popular in the U.S. with jazz musicians and their young fans, who ...

Pachucos, young Mexican Americans with a penchant for flashy attire, embraced zoot suit fashion, jump blues, jazz and swing music and affirmed their self-empowerment by rejecting assimilation into ...

Detroit had its own vibrant zoot suit subculture. The city’s African American and Latino communities adopted the style as a form of self-expression and resistance. Jazz clubs and dance halls in ...

In the 1930s, Mexican American youth in the Southwest united to oppose racism, segregation and discrimination in the United States. Influenced by the style of Black Americans in Harlem, New York ...