zoot suit

Then there was the Zoot Suit Riot with three young ladies 'Tapping' their way to glory with such flair, elan and talent that I think we all wanted to rush up on stage and join them.

They are accompanied by their twelve-year-old brother, Ray, who is wearing his fancy zoot suit. Navy sailors waiting to ship overseas frequent the club as well.

This professionalization of Chicano theatre can be attributed to individual efforts, certainly, but one cannot ignore the impact of Zoot Suit in this progress.

It was and is easy to laugh at their hats and coats, complain about the amount of material used to make them (the reason used for the ban on such wear), or condemn them as subversive--a byproduct of the so-called "Zoot Suit Riots" in 1943 Los Angeles.

footage of one London gig, when the camera pans round, reveals an audience of thousands, up on its feet as a man in a zoot suit and pencil 'tache intones against an upbeat wall of sound: "Doris, you can take my Shrimp Fried Rice, Doris you can take my Italian Ice, Doris, you can take my Chocolate Mousse, Doris, you can take my Cous-Cous...

Examining the racial stereotypes promoted in the newspapers, Escobedo does not avoid the painful pressure that zoot suit culture, Pachuca identity, and crime placed on Mexican American families who desperately sought to control their children.

Atwood says she designed Depp's costume to match his musical style and body language: "Johnny's take on the music (provides) a Tex Avery vibe, which took us right to the zoot suit." She completed the look by hand-embroidering the jacket with a fur-inspired pattern.

All I could think of was the wolf in the zoot suit in the Tex Avery cartoons: a hip, big, bad wolf with a fedora and a zoot suit and a cat chain, and the second I mentioned my idea to Colleen, she got very excited.

However if you're imagining Gruff Rhys is some zoot suit wearing hepcat, think again.

The baggy zoot suit for men with its nipped-in waist also appeared in the early 1940s, but wearers were deemed unpatriotic and were lambasted for excessive use of fabric at a time of clothing rationing, which led to the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 in Los Angeles.