2024年1月20日 · The zoot suit, consisting of a long coat with wide lapels, pegged pants, and a fedora hat, became popular among young Mexican-Americans who were branching out from traditional rural Mexican culture. After World War II, the subcultures of …

A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit[1]) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. It is most notable for its use as a cultural symbol among the Hepcat and Pachuco subcultures.

Cholo style has been identified as combining the loose-fitting comfort of the traditional huipil and baggy draping of the zoot suit donned by the pachuco. [7] Adopting cholo style has also been identified as a way for youths to assert their Chicano identity, especially for those who are only English-speaking.

With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg leg pants, the zoot suit grew out of the “drape” suits popular in Harlem dance halls in the mid-1930s. The flowing trousers were...

The roots of cholo style can be traced back to the pachuco culture of the 1940s. Pachucos were Mexican-American youth who sported zoot suits, ducktail haircuts, and spoke Caló slang. When World War II led to a zoot suit ban, pachucos continued wearing baggy dress pants and suspenders, translating the zoot suit look into their own style.

2019年11月22日 · However, given the role that the pachuco played in the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943, the term became pejorative to the rest of America. With the criminalization experienced by the Mexican-American youth also came the frequent media reports calling pachucos “unpatriotic delinquents destroying American cities.”

2020年1月21日 · To the typical patriotic whites of the 1940s, pachucos were seen as vatos locos, cholos or hoodlums, but to fellow Chicanos along the border, they were a visible symbol of cultural autonomy, wearing a suit of resistance at a time when it …

2024年9月18日 · This first happened with the Pachucos during the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, a significant, five-day response to racial injustice in America’s history. Categorized by the Pachuco’s high-waisted, baggy pants and long, oversized coats, this flamboyant suit was more than a fashion statement.

2023年6月13日 · The zoot suit, colloquially known in its era as “drapes,” was, by most accounts, made prominent by African Americans in Harlem and then quickly embraced by working-class youths across the ...

Known as zoot suiters because of their style of dress—baggy, high-waisted trousers cuffed at the ankles; long, wide-shouldered sports coat; ducktail hairstyle; long decorative chains; and tattoos on the hands and arms—they are remembered for a 1943 confrontation in East Los Angeles known as the Zoot Suit Riots.