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Zoot suit



A zoot suit was a style of clothing first popularized by young Mexican Americans, African Americans, Filipino Americans, and Italian Americans in the late 1930s and 1940s. Today, a zoot suit or zooty is also the term given to a style of rowing clothing in Australia (known as a uni suit in the United States.



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