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Author(s):	Kathy Peiss

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0812223039
Pages:	248	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.
Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary, 1944

Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era that captivated the imagination. Created by poor African American men and obscure tailors, the "drape shape" was embraced by Mexican American pachucos, working-class youth, entertainers, and swing dancers, yet condemned by the U.S. government as wasteful and unpatriotic in a time of war. The fashion became notorious when it appeared to trigger violence and disorder in Los Angeles in 1943events forever known as the "zoot suit riot." In its wake, social scientists, psychiatrists, journalists, and politicians all tried to explain the riddle of the zoot suit, transforming it into a multifaceted symbol: to some, a sign of social deviance and psychological disturbance, to others, a gesture of resistance against racial prejudice and discrimination. As controversy swirled at home, young men in other placesFrench zazous, South African tsotsi, Trinidadian saga boys, and Russian stiliagimade the American zoot suit their own.

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