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A zoot suit is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded ...

You know the zoot suit. It's the suit that bad guys are usually wearing in comical mid-century gangster movies, but there's much more to this story than a stereotype. In the 1940s and 50s, zoot suits were worn by Mexican-American hipsters who embraced the flamboyant oversized style of dress to expre

1940s L.A. Gang Member - the first black gangs were formed in reaction to southern-California “anti-minority gangs” -- largely comprised by war veterans -- such as the “Hell’s Angels” and the Los Angeles-based “Spook Hunters” who began carrying out violent attacks against predominantly-black-and-Hispanic communities.

The Zoot Suit Riots occurred in Los Angeles from June 3 to June 8, 1943. Learn about the causes and aftermath of this racially-motivated violence.

"Pachucos are Mexican American adolescents, generally ages thirteen to twenty-two, who belonged to juvenile gangs from around the 1930s to the 1950s. Mainstream media referred to them in English as "zoot suiters." The Zoot-Suit Riots that had Los Angeles as their setting in June 1943 were so labeled because the press identified the confrontation as being between Mexican-American zoot suiters on the one hand, and United States servicemen and civilians on the other"

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Zoot-suiters at the Savoy Ballroom, Harlem. Seemingly in defiance of wartime restrictions, the Zoot-suiters outfits consisted of oversized, often DB jackets with padded shoulders and draped, peg top trousers. The quantities of fabric needed to construct a foot suit led to a widespread belief that Zoot-suiters were unpatriotic and had suppliers and contacts in the criminal underworld.

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Too cute.

Half and half.

Participants of pachuco culture were not just male, youth or Mexican American. The history of the culture includes a number of complexities.