From bold-colored scarves to the zoot suit in Harlem to the ... was popularized by Black women like Josephine Baker and made ...

Men and women, boys and girls struggled ... Those who were found wearing zoot suits were beaten and often stripped of their clothing. Thousands of white civilians cheered them on and helped ...

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 jazz era of the 1920s, also known as the Jazz Age, was marked by the liberation of cultural norms, especially in fashion. Women ... music brought about the zoot suit, a flamboyant outfit ...

Men and women, boys and girls struggled ... Those who were found wearing zoot suits were beaten and often stripped of their clothing. Thousands of white civilians cheered them on and helped ...