A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It is copied, amended and upgraded, embraced by Hollywood actors in search of the fashionable. As it travels the country in the late ...

For five years, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been working on an exhibition about the history of men’s fashion from the 18th century to the present. And for more than five years, its ...

Zoot suit pants legs were wide and tapered at the ankles. The noted photographer Gordon Parks captured this image in Daytona Beach, Florida. Gordon Parks / Library of Congress Prints and Photographs ...

L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price sits beside a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the pioneering Black newspaper California Eagle, and victims of the Zoot Suit riots. (Dania Maxwell / Los ...

During the first half of the 20th century, new fashion trends often permeated culture by starting at the top and trickling down to the masses over time. To some degree this is true of the zoot suit, ...

“A killer-diller coat with a drape-shape, reat-pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic’s cell”. Detroit Red aka Malcolm X “These youths refused to accept the racialized norms of segregated America.