Those who track the winds of men`s fashion may have read that wide-shouldered, double-breasted suits are making a comeback. The style, fashion mavens say, is reminiscent of the old zoot suits.

Where would you spot a gentleman in a cobalt blue zoot suit, you ask? Stop by a ska show at Royal Oak Music Theatre and you'll run into Toth. We caught this Reel Big Fish fan sporting an eye ...

Getty Images Colman Domingo arrives to the 2025 Met Gala in a blue robe designed by Valentino. Getty Images Colman Domingo arrives at the 2025 Met Gala wearing a Zoot Suit-inspired Valentino look.

The zoot suit offered a prime example of fashion’s democratization as the bold, new style gained mass appeal. Young, mainstream wearers all across the country embraced and enhanced their own suits.

It's the story of a real-life murder trial and the so-called Zoot Suit Riots, set amid rampant discrimination in 1940s Los Angeles. A play called "Zoot Suit" was a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s ...

When Zoot Suit premiered on Broadway in 1979, it made history as the first Chicano musical to do so. For director Luis Valdez, it was a career achievement — a crossover hit that delivered themes ...

Zoot suit pants legs were wide and tapered at the ankles. The noted photographer Gordon Parks captured this image in Daytona Beach, Florida. Gordon Parks / Library of Congress Prints and ...

Maluma walked the 2025 Met Gala carpet with his designer friend, Willy Chavarría, who was behind the artist's cultural statement-making outfit.

Amid the great and grotesque "isms" battling for primacy in World War II, a curious ideological contest was fought out in America: the epic struggle over the zoot suit. Was the fashion, as singer ...

The zoot suits had since the 1930s been associated with black jazz culture, and the riots gave it an air of criminality. The sight of zoot-suited youths on a corner came to terrify the urban ...

How ‘Lizard in a Zoot Suit’ Turns L.A. History Into a Sci-Fi Adventure. Marco Finnegan talks about setting his new YA graphic novel during the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943.