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	Zoot suit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zoot suits first gained popularity in Harlem jazz culture in the late 1930s where they were called "drapes".
		Zoot Suits were satirized by Al Capp in 1943 in the comic strip Li'l Abner, in which Abner Yokum appeared as "Zoot Suit Yokum," a gullible but near-indestructible man chosen by a clothing manufacturer to serve as role model for white youth through dangerous, staged heroic feats.
		Zoot Suit is also the name of a musical play by written by Luis Valdez, featuring music from Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero, the "father of Chicano music." When it debuted in 1979, Zoot Suit was the first Chicano play on Broadway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zoot_suit (676 words)

	Zoot Suit Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that erupted in Los Angeles, California during World War II, between sailors and soldiers stationed in the city and Mexican American youth gangs headed by pachucos, recognized because of the zoot suits they favored.
		In response to the riots Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her weekly column about the problems faced by the Mexican American community as a result of racism in the United States.
		A murder mystery novel, The Zoot Suit Murders by Thomas Sanchez, employed the riots as a backdrop to the main mystery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zoot_Suit_Riots (606 words)

	The call of the Zoot: Bow tie, be gone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Elvis Nunez, a junior at North High School in Denver, wore a zoot suit to his high school prom last week, a dapper fl ensemble punctuated by a crimson shirt that was inspired by a similar version worn by Edward James Olmos in "Zoot Suit," the play, and the 1982 movie.
		Zoot suits, long an alternative formal wear staple, have lately shown signs of filtering into the mainstream.
		Zoot suits, mostly worn by young Latinos, were branded gangster garb in the 1940s.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/0526zootsuit26.html (620 words)

	Zoot Suit Riot's Film
		Zoot Suit Riots Film Feels Appropriate Today Documentary Examines Racial Profiling During World War II 1943 Los Angeles erupts into the worst violence in its history as one murder incites a police dragnet that lands more than 600 Mexican-American youths in jail.
		In the streets, Anglo servicemen gather nightly to corral Mexican-American men wearing the infamous Zoot Suit, considered unpatriotic and not in line with the "War Effort." The youths were stripped and their clothes burnt on the streets as LAPD stood by.
		"Zoot Suit Riots" is the first major documentary on the subject and contains evocative original photography, archival footage and interviews with a wide variety of eyewitnesses.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/february01-02/ZOOT.HTM (1289 words)

	LOS ANGELES TIMES
		Although "zoot suits" became a uniform of delinquency because of their popularity among the gangs, their adoption by some of the city's youth was more a bid for recognition, a way of being "different," in the opinion of Heman G. Stark, County Protection Office chief of delinquency prevention.
		Crowds were dispersed almost as soon as they gathered and few youths in zoot suits were seen as groups of soldiers moved through the district with the watchful eyes of men looking for trouble.
		There have been reports that the zoot suit was inspired by authentic Civil War garb worn by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind." In several scenes he appeared in a long coat and peg trousers.
	web.mala.bc.ca /davies/H324War/Zootsuit.riots.media.1943.htm (4744 words)

	World War Two and the Zoot Suit Riots
		The Zoot Suit Riots occurred in the context of national and global racial conflicts during the World War II era.
		The most recent antecedent to the Zoot Suit Riots of June 1943 was the Sleepy Lagoon case of August 1942 in Los Angeles.
		In fact, the role of the media in the "zoot suit riots" deserves special scrutiny, not only because of the nature of the media at the time but also because of the portrayal of teenagers by the mainstream media today.
	w3.usf.edu /~lc/MOOs/zootsuit (1669 words)

	The Zoot Suit Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		What is known as the "Zoot Suit Riots" occurred between the gangs of predominantly fl and Mexican youths who were at the forefront of the zoot-suit subculture, and the predominantly white American servicemen stationed along the Pacific coast.
		On this and the following nights, many a zoot suiters were beaten by this mob and stripped of their clothes, their zoot suits, on the spot.
		In Los Angelas County, a result of the riots was the enactment of a law prohibiting the wearing of a Zoot Suit within the county limits.
	just-the-swing.com /doc/his/zoot-suit-riots (1769 words)

	Zoot Suit
		Zoot Suit is a show band that can cater for every occasion and please a wide diversity of tastes and age groups.
		For example, Zoot Suit can begin with a roving acoustic style set or solo piano, creating the atmosphere that you desire and proceed later to a full stage presentation.
		The name 'Zoot Suit' commonly refers to a style of clothing worn in the 40's by some of America's youth which subsequently turned into a form of rebellion.
	www.zootsuit.info (480 words)

	American Experience \| Zoot Suit Riots \| Special Features
		Initially an African American youth fashion, closely connected to jazz culture, the zoot suit was co-opted by a generation of Mexican American kids, who made it their own.
		Zoot suiters asserted themselves, at a time when fabric was being rationed for the war effort, and in the face of widespread discrimination.
		Zoot suits were reserved for special occasions -- a dance or a birthday party.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/zoot/eng_sfeature/sf_zoot_mx.html (152 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Zoot Suit at Epinions.com
		Zoot Suit is a musical starring Edward James Olmos as the narrator El Pachuco and Luis Valdez, the writer/director of not only this film but also the stage play this film was developed from, with Daniel Valdez as the lead Henry Leyvas.
		Olmos also narrates the film and the events, speaks to the characters of the film directly or addresses the audience; Zoot Suit is the kind of musical where the characters of the film occasionally become aware of the audience watching the play, and all interact.
		Zoot Suit is a musical, a stage play and a film, all wrapped into one, with a very deep, political background and some exploration of the subjects at hand.
	www.epinions.com /content_59488898692 (1122 words)

	Los Angeles: Painted City -- Zoot Suit
		The press used the term ‘zoot suit’ to attack Mexican Americans because the term evoked the image of a devious person without blatantly attacking this racial group.
		By creating this devious image of the zoot suiter, the press also aided in the perpetuating the belief that these youths were receiving justly deserved punishment.
		But the majority of those who were arrested were not wearing zoot suits, showing that more than just attire was involved.
	members.tripod.com /~noemigarcia/lapaint/zootsuit.htm (778 words)

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		The Zoot Suit Riots occurred in Los Angeles over the course of ten days in June, 1943, as young conscripted American servicemen confronted the so-called "gamin' dandies," young Mexican-Americans whose cultural norms were an affront to the culture of wartime America.
		Regardless, the Zoot Suit came to Los Angeles around 1940, where it and those who chose to wear it were met by "anger, shock, and undoubtedly envy" by the adult population.
		The "Zoot Suit Yokum" chapter is a gripping precursor of the symbolic developments that typified the riots.
	www.bisonusa.net /zoot.htm (7154 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Zoot Suit
		The zoot suit was a style of clothing popularized by young male African Americans,; Filipino Americans, and Mexican Americans during the 1930s and 1940s.
		One theory of the origins of the zoot suit was that it was imitated from the suit worn by Clark Cable in the movie Gone with the Wind.
		He said he copied the fashions of ghetto-dwelling teenagers, and in 1941 made such suits for musicians who wanted an "eye-poppin' style." When Fox died in 1996 at the age of 86, he was buried in a lavender zoot suit.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101367 (364 words)

	The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare
		The zoot-suit was a refusal: a subcultural gesture that refused to concede to the manners of subservience.
		Zoot meant something worn or performed in an extravagant style, and since many young fls wore suits with outrageously padded shoulders and trousers that were fiercely tapered at the ankles, the term zoot-suit passed into everyday usage.
		Tellez allegedly wore a colourful long drape coat that was "part of a $75 suit" and a pair of pegged trousers "very full at the knees and narrow at the cuffs" which were allegedly part of another suit.
	invention.smithsonian.org /centerpieces/whole_cloth/u7sf/u7materials/cosgrove.html (5747 words)

	Zoot Suits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Zoot suits start at $299.99 U.S.D. Zoot suits start at $299.99 U.S.D. Sizes 48-52 add a $30 upsize charge (sizes 54-74 are custom.)
		The "Suavecito Zoot Suit" model (shown to the right) has the old school zoot suit look from the height of the zoot suit era in the early and mid 1940s.
		Zoot suits start at $299.99 U.S.D. Sizes 48-52 add a $30 upsize charge (sizes 54-74 are custom.)
	www.suavecito.com /Zoots.htm (344 words)

	Harness Racing Portal - Harnesslink.com Feature Articles
		I saw Zoot Suit for the final time last year when I was in Sweden for the Elitlopp, but I remember well his days on the track in the 1970s and even his birth.
		Zoot Suit played second banana to the champion colt Nevele Thunder in the Stanley Dancer Stable that year, but as a 3-year-old Zoot Suit was much improved.
		Zoot Suit remained active in the breeding shed until the last year or two and Norman took great pleasure in visiting Zoot Suit several times a year in Sweden.
	www.harnesslink.com /www/Article.cgi?ID=32416 (1604 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Zoot Suit'
		It's been 25 years since Zoot Suit first strutted its way onto the stages of America, shaking up the theater world with its canny blend of music, real-life drama, Latino history, mysticism and cultural psychology.
		Valdez, who went on to write and direct the film La Bamba, first staged Zoot Suit as part of his Teatro Campesino, a theater company that began as a grassroots troupe formed to spread information and raise funds for Caesar Chavez's grape boycott and farmworkers' strike.
		Now, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Zoot Suit is hitting the road again, beginning a national tour with a two-week stint in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.25.04/zoot-suit-0435.html (1173 words)

	Zoot Suit Catalog
		Our pure white business styled dress suits in either our fashionable single breasted model or our timeless double breasted model, are the “rage” all over the world.
		THE WHITE SUIT® is offered with our traditionally styled pleated dress slack which many of our customer’s wear as a separate pair of dress slacks with out the jacket.
		Our SIEGEL’S 3 PIECE CURTIS SUIT fashioned in a longer and sleeker silhouette model of the finest blend of super-fine 60% Polyester, and 40% Rayon blended fabric, in an all year ’round weight, for one of the best draping 3 piece suits available today.
	www.zootsuitstore.com /Shopping/Catalog/zootsuit.asp (276 words)

	The zoot suit is back
		Hill was one of the snappiest dressers on the dance floor at the American Red Cross swing dance benefit in May, an event that attracted several men in zoot suits.
		The suit's design is distinguished by the exaggerated cut of the long, thigh-length coat with broad, padded shoulders and tapered waist.
		Phyllis Estrella, owner of Zoot Suits el Pachuco in Fullerton, Calif., started her company in 1978, after falling in love with the fashion.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19990907zoot1.asp (1158 words)

	Journal of Popular Film and Television: Brechtian and Aztec violence in Valdez's 'Zoot Suit.' - playwright Luis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Zoot Suit was a tremendous hit on the Los Angeles stage in 1978 and became the first Chicano play on Broadway, though it played much less successfully in New York.
		The phenomenal success of Zoot Suit raised critical questions about Valdez as a leading teatro (theater) artists - although his grassroots credentials were impeccable.
		In the decade since the film was made, critics have accused Valdez of selling-out to the white, mainstream, mass audience; presenting reactionary stereotypes in his female characters; and idealizing violence in the gangster paradigm of his male zoot-suited pachucos.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n2_v26/ai_21221634 (553 words)

	'Zoot Suit' riots anniversary subject of weeklong series of events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		STANFORD -- A weeklong series of events are scheduled at Stanford University to mark the 50th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, a significant confrontation between Chicano youth and the U.S. military.
		Beyond Zoot Suit Week, Feb. 1-6, additional events - lectures, concerts and films - will be held in February to mark the anniversary.
		Thursday, Feb. 4, 6 p.m.: Alfredo Mirande, professor of sociology and ethnic studies at the University of California-Riverside, and currently a Stanford law student, will present "The Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992: Comparisons and Contrasts." Mirande is the author of Gringo Justice (1987) and The Chicano Experience (1985).
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/930129Arc3432.html (577 words)

	Zoot Suit Riots
		Set in the environment of ethnic and racial paranoia that defined the early 1940s in Los Angeles, California, the "Zoot Suit Riots" were a defining moment for Zoot Suiters and the Mexican American community.
		On the night of August 1, 1942, zoot suiter Henry Leyvas, 20, and some of his friends were involved in a fight with another group of pachucos at the Williams Ranch by a lagoon.
		Though one medical examiner stated that his injuries were consistent with that of being hit by a car, Henry Leyvas and 24 members of the "38th Street gang" (as the group had been dubbed by the local tabloids) were arrested and charged with the murder of José Díaz.
	www.suavecito.com /history.htm (1217 words)

	Zoot Suit Costume
		This zoot suit is fl with white stripes.
		The jacket is long, and the pants are double pleated in the front accented by white buttons and elastic in back to ensure a great fit.
		Suspenders, tie, zoot suit chain and hat are all included for one great price.
	www.flappercostumes.com /zoot_suit.html (58 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Zoot Suit'
		Acclaimed on the L.A. and New York stages, and filmed with Edward James Olmos, Zoot Suit is, 25 years later, finally in its first Northern California run on the stage that was built largely because of its success--The Playhouse in San Juan Bautista.
		Valdez says he was inspired to write Zoot Suit while he was a young man exploring his identity and politics.
		If the realization that Chavez was once a pachuco is startling to some, so too does Zoot Suit get under the media myths as well as the surface bluster to find real meaning in the growing Chicano identity moment of the time.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/12.11.02/zootsuit-0250.html (873 words)

	Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots
		As young men are prone to do, many young Latino males distinguished themselves with distinctive hairdos ("duck tails") and apparel ("drape shapes" or "zoot suits" - wide-brimmed hats, broad-shouldered long coats, high-waisted peg-legged trousers and long dangling chains).
		At first, serviceman merely derided the young Latino males attired in "zoot suits." The derision turned to resentment, however, because the young Latino "zoot suiters" were not in military uniform.
		The local press had been beating a drum of fear that a "Mexican crime wave" had hit the city and "zoot suiters" and "gangsters" were one and the same.
	www.laalmanac.com /history/hi07t.htm (706 words)

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