ZOOT SUIT Definition & Meaning

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zoot suit

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noun

a man's suit with baggy, tight-cuffed, sometimes high-waisted trousers and an oversized jacket with exaggeratedly broad, padded shoulders and wide lapels, often worn with suspenders and a long watch chain and first popularized in the early 1940s.

zoot suit

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noun

slang.
a man's suit consisting of baggy trousers with very tapered bottoms and a long jacket with wide padded shoulders, popular esp in the US in the 1940s

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Derived Forms

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of zoot suit¹

1940–45, Americanism; rhyming compound based on suit

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of zoot suit¹

C20: of uncertain origin; perhaps an arbitrary rhyme on suit

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Chavarria tells the story of American fashion through a Chicano lens, creating now-distinctive oversize, sculptural silhouettes that pull from various eras of Mexican American style, from sharply angular zoot suits to blue-collar workwear.

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“The zoot suit was a very conspicuous look,” says Catherine S. Ramirez, author of “The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory.”

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Servicemen barged into movie theaters and stripped off the zoot suits of anyone wearing them.

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I have walked through costume houses in my career and said “Oh my God, that’s a zoot suit from ‘Malcolm X!’”

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Local residents joined the board during the unanimous vote while wearing outfits that resembled the zoot suits favored by many minority youths in Los Angeles in the 1940s.

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