The zoot suit rose from Black communities and ultimately helped brown people fight back, too.
told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens.vividly details the first time they encountered a zoot suit: “It was as though I'd never seen their like before: walking slowly, their shoulders swaying, their legs swinging from their hips in trousers that ballooned upward from cuffs fitting snug about their ankles; their coats long and hip-tight with shoulders far too broad to be those of natural western men.
The zoot suit — a style of suit defined by exaggerated shoulder pads, high-waisted ballooned trousers cuffed at the ankle, and long, gleaming watch chains —back to black dance halls in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood in the mid-1930s, where its creators found the oversize fit and cuffed ankles ideal for moving freely on the dance floor.
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