#Zoot Suit

[theafroamericaine]

Spike Lee as Shorty & Denzel Washington as Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992).

Classic Black Cinema 📽️

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misanthrope II

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[aba-dog]

Phoenix in zoot suits ✨

[nkjemisin]

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Men's zoot suit, 1938-42, New Jersey.

[firecooking]

Z stacks at their 'brightest' during the zoot suit era Fun little doodle getting back into the swing of things

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[cakbanedraws]

Happy Pride Month Everyone!

Made Cad Bane wears Zoot Outfits by using Asexual color pallete

[bellnallart]

dressed for a night out

[mobby-bobby]

WIP eubddudbdskxje

I HAVE SO MANY WIP SHIT ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. I made some of Mobby, a drug lord OC I have. I have some of Pest, and even one of Poob! I hope I can show more art of Mobby because I love him! Also I do ship Mobby, Pest, and Lampert. Sorry chat but I’ll die cringe and happy

[hexasart]

[Zoot Suit Riot blasts in the distance]

[theafroamericaine]

The Zoot Suit in Black Culture

In today's history lesson, we will discuss the vintage zoot suit, a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders.

The Chitlin Circuit (during the era of US racial segregation) was a network of clubs, theaters, and other venues where Black entertainers were allowed to perform, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary. These hotspots had comedy shows where entertainers such as Pigmeat Markham would dress up in baggy suits as part of their routine. This took place in the 1920s, eventually giving way to the more flamboyant, stylish and colorful zoot suit.

Born out of the inner city ghettos and African-American creativity, the suits were first associated with cities such as Harlem, Detroit and Chicago in the 30's. Musicians helped popularize the suit with a more tailored distinguished look, Cab Calloway, an American entertainer, famously wore the zoot suit in the movie, Stormy Weather (1943). Jazz and Jump Blues were all the rage back then and you could spot these suits at the dance halls.

“The zoot was not a costume or uniform from the world of entertainment. It came right off the street and out of the ghetto.” -Harold C. Fox, a Chicago clothier

According to Cab Calloway's Cat-ologue: A "Hepster's" Dictionary (1938), he called the zoot suit "the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit."

It was the signature look of the African-American subculture of Hepcats. A young Malcolm X could be seen wearing one. Dancers to businessmen to singers to instrumentalists, all dressed in zoots. It wasn't just about making a fashion statement, but a sense of cultural pride.

The look picked up in other communities such as the Mexicans, Filipinos, Japanese etc... forming their subcultures respectively.

On June 3, 1943, a string of attacks against Mexican-Americans started in Downtown Los Angeles, CA. Approximately 11 sailors got into a heated confrontation with some young Mexican-Americans and proceeded to assault them. The next day, hundreds of sailors traveled to a predominantly Mexican-American settlement in East Los Angeles and began another assault. Harassing anyone who wore a zoot suit, making them strip and burning their clothes. White residents and servicemen used the excuse that the zoots weren't "patriotic" due to it containing large amounts of fabric. This is during World War II were rationing food and fabrics were seen as necessary. This vicious and violent behavior spread to different cities leaving nothing, but devastation and trauma in its wake. These were known as the infamous Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.

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[magicalmoss]

zoot

[victusinveritas]

Zoot Suit and Dame by Frank Frazetta

[dominicdelagol2]

The Pikmask - Red Pikmin, but with the Mask!

[eggman91]

here a early rocky this cat look like cab Calloway with his drip fucking based my man

[techhasmjolnir]

ATTENTION, EVERYONE MUCH BETTER AT DRAWING THAN ME:

I have a mighty need to see all the boys from the Bad Batch dressed in zoot suits, and Omega needs to be dressed as a flapper.

MAKE IT HAPPEN AND THEN TAG ME!