How To Use Zoot suit In A Sentence
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Now it turns out he's actually wearing nice, comfy long johns under his zoot suit.
Times, Sunday Times
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With my wild zoot suit I wore the yellow knob-toe shoes, and I frizzled my hair up into a reddish bush of conk.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Holly and I hung out at the SFWA suite for awhile, where I somehow got talked into promising to knit Jeremy Lassen a "jaunty" scarf to go with his zoot suit convention looks.
The Really Long Worldcon Post
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Edward James Olmos, received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the pachuco in the stage and film version of Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit and for his role as Jaime Escalante in the film Stand and Deliver.
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Zoot suits were seem as thuggish and anti-establishment back in the day.
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Stiliagi, or “style hunters,” appeared on the streets of all the major cities in the Soviet bloc, wearing zoot suits and ducktails if they were male or tight dresses—“stretched tightly over their figures to the point of indecency,” according to one state-run Soviet newspaper—and bouffant hairdos if they were female.
A Renegade History of the United States
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With my wild zoot suit I wore the yellow knob-toe shoes, and I frizzled my hair up into a reddish bush of conk.
A Renegade History of the United States
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It begins with men in zoot suits in crayon colours.
Times, Sunday Times
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With my wild zoot suit I wore the yellow knob-toe shoes, and I frizzled my hair up into a reddish bush of conk.
A Renegade History of the United States
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And luckily all my zoot suits still fit.
Times, Sunday Times
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I thought goofballs disappeared along with bennies, zoot suits and Vault of Horror comics.
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The riots in LA and Harlem, the zoot suit culture, and rebellious youth in general were widely seen as threats to national security.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Stiliagi, or “style hunters,” appeared on the streets of all the major cities in the Soviet bloc, wearing zoot suits and ducktails if they were male or tight dresses—“stretched tightly over their figures to the point of indecency,” according to one state-run Soviet newspaper—and bouffant hairdos if they were female.
A Renegade History of the United States
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The newly arrived trainees, outfitted in ill-fitting khaki jumpsuits they called zoot suits, seemed unusual indeed to the people of Sweetwater.
AmericanHeritage.com
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While the zoot suit eventually attained widespread popularity in the mainstream, it also became a pejorative synonym for "Mexican" on the West Coast as some Americans took umbrage at so many able-bodied young men who were not "helping to win the war.
From Zoot Suits to Border Walls
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We're told this maneuver hasn't been employed since 1941 so the Republican leadership is really reaching on this one if McConnell is pulling a retro '40s move like this, at least he could have done it while wearing a zoot suit, no?
HUFFPOST HILL - HUFFPOST HILL - Mitch McConnell's Wile E. Coyote-Style Legislative Traps
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Subsequently, newspapers dropped the word "Mexican" from their reports, and substituted, instead, the term pachuco or zoot suiter.
Luis Valdez
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Oh, and to answer your question, fair reader: I wore my double-breasted zoot suit, purchased for $40 at a thrift store in Pittsboro, NC - the bowtie is the Skylark from the Bow Tie Club.
Mazeltov
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Stiliagi, or “style hunters,” appeared on the streets of all the major cities in the Soviet bloc, wearing zoot suits and ducktails if they were male or tight dresses—“stretched tightly over their figures to the point of indecency,” according to one state-run Soviet newspaper—and bouffant hairdos if they were female.
A Renegade History of the United States
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I spent four and a bit hours at the Forum, listening to George Clinton and his band of nappy-wearing, sheepskin-donning, zoot suit-sporting funksters deliver the most incredible performance I've ever witnessed.
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There are academics who like to say that his sharpie style was his first expression of protest: "Malcolm X is widely accepted as evidence of the zoot suiter as a figure of resistance," Ms. Peiss writes.
Hep Cats, Street Fights
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What was the zoot suit, a threat to the nation or a yawping expression of the very freedoms that the country was fighting for?
Hep Cats, Street Fights
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But what of Malcolm Little, the zoot suiter who would become Malcolm X?
Hep Cats, Street Fights
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It was the secret fantasy of every "vato" living in or out of the "pachucada" to put on the zoot suit and play the myth.
Question about vulgar language
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In an age of compulsory wearing of uniforms, the zoot suit accomplished an antithetical stylization of the self.
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Virtually announcing their indifference toward citizenship, tens of thousands of black and Mexican American youths adopted the zoot suit style, which many whites considered to be outrageous and lacking proper respectability.
A Renegade History of the United States
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My brother explained to me that these hep cats were new on the scene and zooty-er than any of the original zoot suiters.
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