And while some chose to go the 1920s flapper route, wearing feathered dresses, others wore the Zoot suit or dramatic capes ... pocket watches and bolero hats made in Mexico City.

The suit was distinguished by a long, drapy coat, billowy pants and a large hat, often topped with a feather. Many people viewed those who wore zoot suits during the war as “un-American,” even ...

The timing could not be better for the revival of Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum ... symbolic figure of Chicano panache and pride, decked out in a feathered hat and a belt chain hanging to his ...

he really wanted a zoot suit — those flashy outfits with tapered, high-waisted pants, fingertip coats and dashing hats, preferably graced with a feather. No way, said his mom. Good thing too.

Decked out in baggy suits, their watch chains swinging to the mambo as feathers bop atop their wide-brimmed hats, Mexico's "pachucos" are keeping alive the tradition of the zoot suit -- and the ...

Outfits accessorized by wide-brimmed hats with feathers, long watch chains and shiny shoes. The zoot suit, worn in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s by Black and Mexican American men, prompted a ...

Their outlandish zoot suits, tattoos and slang were a rebellion against mainstream US society that had marginalised them. The door to the bedroom closet opened wide, revealing dozens of brightly ...

then showed off her white form-fitting three-piece custom Louis Vuitton zoot suit, designed by Pharrell Williams, complete with a matching tie, wide-brimmed hat and sparkling brooch pinned below ...

Before he became Malcolm X, Malcolm Little, for example, wore a zoot suit as he morphed from country bumpkin to big-city hustler in Harlem in the early 1940s. Inspired by the English “drape ...