Some Zoot Suit Appreciation by

A classic Zoot Suit with the long overcoat and high waisted pants

youngs2_17 — 2024-10-22 05:28:28 UTC

"Portrait of Ramona", 1944

youngs2_17 — 2024-10-22 05:30:35 UTC

youngs2_17 — 2024-10-22 05:45:18 UTC

This is the Zoot Suit theme song composed for the musical, Zoot Suit, directed by Luis Valdez (1981). The movie is a lively and obviously theatrical adaptation of the Broadway play that depicts the struggle between white authorities and the Pachucos that wore Zoot Suits. This is an instrumental song that is worth listening to when reading about Zoot Suit culture and how through each generation, there's a strong need to resist white supremacy and its violence against people of color.

youngs2_17 — 2024-10-22 05:56:12 UTC

Zoot Suit "Rioters" lined up outside of L.A. jail after the Zoot Suit Riots

youngs2_17 — 2024-11-04 01:12:09 UTC

Protecting hundreds of service men who came through and violently assaulted Zoot suit wearing Chicano/African American youth and young men, the LAPD arrested hundreds of Pachuco and other people of color throughout the following week. Another example of both the maintenence

of white supremacy and Chicano and Black resistance

Tom and Jerry, Tom in a Zoot Suit

youngs2_17 — 2024-11-04 01:21:14 UTC

A classis Zoot Suit example of Tom the Cat from Tom and Jerry from the 50's

youngs2_17 — 2024-11-04 01:33:12 UTC

This is a great short clip about Zoot suit style that American youth started to used- highlighting that a lot of these Chicano youth were second generation kids that didn't speak much Spanish more than they were speaking English

youngs2_17 — 2024-11-04 01:37:28 UTC

Here is another small summary video about Zoot Suits- pointing out the WW2 rations on fabric, and how the excessive fabric that was required of the Zoot Suit were also a form of resistance against government rules by Pachuco youth.

youngs2_17 — 2024-11-04 01:42:25 UTC

Here's Cab Calloway, an extremely talented Jazz and Swing musician that frequently wore Zoot Suits. This is by far my favorite song that he did, also attached is a famous picture in a Zoot Suit

youngs2_17 — 2024-11-04 01:45:51 UTC

Here is a tweet from Cab Calloway's Twitter, sharing a picture of him in a Zoot Suit from the set of Stormy Weather!

youngs2_17 — 2024-11-04 01:47:23 UTC

If you know Betty Boop, you most likely know this episode that Cab Calloway did this song on!