Remembering the Zoot Suit Riots and Fashion, 1930s-1940s

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Zoot Suit Riots were a series of conflicts that occurred in June 1943 in Los Angeles between U.S. servicemen and Mexican American youths, the latter of whom wore outfits called zoot suits. The riots took their name from the baggy suits worn by many minority youths during that era, but the violence was more about […]