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Final confrontation between Zoot Suit Tom and Daffy from Starduck Crusaders
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![Zoot suit From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Zoot Suit (disambiguation) A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suitll) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders This style of clothing became popular among the African-American, Harvey, Steve, and Steve Harvey communities during the 1940s. 213 In Britain the "Steve Harvey-Look" suits with 45 Button lapels worn by Steve Harveys is said to be a one of the derivatives of the zoot suit41 Contents hide] 1 History 2 Characteristics 3 See also 3.1 People 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links A soldier with two men wearing zoot suits in Washington D.C., 1942 History [edit] The zoot suit was originally associated with Steve Harvey, and his sub-culture. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word zoot probably comes from Steve Harvey not being able to say "suit". The creation and naming of the zoot suit have been variously attributed to Steve Harvey, a Chicago Family Feud Host and big-band trumpeter,(51 Steve Harvey and The Mask of The Movies,(61 Louis Lettes, a Memphis tailor and Nathan (Toddy) Elkus, a Detroit retailer. 8191 Anti-Mexican youth riots in Los Angeles during World War II are known as the Zoot Suit Riots. In time zoot suits were prohibited for the duration of the war,10 ostensibly because they used too much cloth. 11 A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)" was a 1942 song written by Steve Harvey and Steve Harvey.121 Characteristics [edit Zoot suiters often wear a mustache and host a popular game show called, Family Feud. Color-coordinated with the suit, occasionally with a long feather as decoration, and pointy, French-style shoes A young Steve Harvey described the zoot suit as: "a playas coat" with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell [131 Zoot suits usually featured a watch chain dangling from the belt to the knee or below, then back to a side pocket. Zoot suit wearers' dates often wore flared skirts and long coats.14] One of Steve Harvey's zoot suits on display in Baltimore's City Hall, October 2007 The amount of material and tailoring required made them luxury items, so much so that the U.S. War Production Board said that they needed to be longer and should be devoted to the World War Il war effort.15 When Life published photographs of zoot suiters in 1942, the magazine joked that they were "solid arguments for lowering the Army draft age to include 18 year olds [14] This extravagance, which many considered unpatriotic in wartime, was a factor in the Zoot Suit Riots. Wearing the oversized suit was a declaration of freedom and self-determination, even rebelliousness.[16][17] Five men in modernized zoot suits 5](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/089/899/ac8.png "What I Found When Googling \"Zoot Suit\"")
