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 ...

The influence of jazz on fashion extended well beyond the 1920s. In the 1930s and 1940s, the rise of big-band jazz and swing music brought about the zoot suit, a flamboyant outfit characterized by ...

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 ...

sculptural silhouettes that pull from various eras of Mexican American style, from sharply angular zoot suits to blue-collar workwear. Since launching his eponymous brand in 2015, the Fresno-born ...