zoot suits
Oversized wartime garb
Zoot suits are men's suits from the 1940s with exaggerated proportions—high-waisted, wide-legged trousers tapered at the ankle and a long jacket with broad, padded shoulders.
Associated with jazz culture, African American and Mexican American youth, the style was flamboyant and defiant during wartime fabric rationing: He strutted in wearing a purple zoot suit.
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- bebopFast, complex jazz style
- swingSuspended recreational seat
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- Cab CallowayScat-singing jazz bandleader
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- 1940sWWII, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, Normandy, VE Day
- Roaring Twentiesflappers, Charleston, speakeasies, jazz age, Prohibition
- Latino CultureHispanic Americans, Latino, Chicana, Mexican-American, Cuban Americans
- Swing Erabig band, swing music, swing, swing era, big band era
- entertainment historyvaudeville, silent films, talkies, Hollywood, movie palaces
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