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Two teenagers in 1943 wearing zoot suits with wide lapels, long jackets, and loose trousers, standing inside a diner. One wears a wide-brimmed hat. Sporting a zoot suit Los Angeles style Zoot Suit Riots
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Black dandyism
Two teenagers dressed in zoot suits in 1943.
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Sporting a zoot suit
Jazz great Cab Calloway was one of many Harlem musicians who adopted the zoot suit...
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Los Angeles style
Frank Tellez wearing a zoot suit in Los Angeles, California, in June 1943.
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Zoot Suit Riots
Zoot-suiters arrested during the Zoot Suit Riots waiting to be taken to the courthouse...
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