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With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg leg pants, the zoot suit grew out of the “drape” suits popular in Harlem dance halls in the mid-1930s. The flowing trousers were...
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May 21, 2018 · How The ‘Zoot Suit’ Defined the Look of Fashion and Jazz. Seen as a subversion of capitalism, the suit was actually banned by the government. Publicity still portrait of American bandleader and actor Cab Calloway in a zoot suit in the all-black-cast musical 'Stormy Weather' (20th Century Fox), 1943.
Nov 21, 2020 · Lots of rare footage and photos as Zoot Suit originator Cab Calloway shares his own life story, including a visit to his old neighborhood, as well as talking about jazz history for the 1983...
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Cab Calloway wearing zoot suit in a musical performance from the 1943 motion picture "Stormy Weather"" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 9, 2024.
One of Cab Calloway's zoot suits on display in Baltimore's City Hall, October 2007 In 1953, he played the prominent role of Sportin' Life in a production of Porgy and Bess with William Warfield and Leontyne Price as the title characters.
Cab Calloway wears a white zoot suit in a lobby card for the 1943 musical film Stormy Weather. The suits were first associated with African-Americans in communities such as Harlem, [15] Chicago, and Detroit in the 1930s, [15] but were made popular nationwide by Jazz and Jump Blues musicians in the 1940s.
Jun 13, 2023 · Calloway appeared in a billowing white zoot suit in the hit 1943 movie musical “Stormy Weather.” The untold story of the Zoot Suit riots: How Black L.A. defended Mexican Americans
