It was, as the historian Kathy Peiss writes in Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, “perhaps the first time in American history that fashion was believed to be the cause of wide ...

Though comically oversized, the jacket retained its structure with heavily padded shoulders and large lapels, creating a zoot suit-like silhouette. Jesse Grant Keys gave her ensemble a bit of ...

In little time the zoot suit style faded from view. And eventually the small reservoir known as the Sleepy Lagoon fell victim to urban sprawl and was filled in. Census information tells part of ...