he’s a creative type who’s reclaiming traditional American style from the stodgy masses!” Unsurprisingly, the Brooks Brothers version is a pitch-perfect recreation of the original sack suit ...

Within the zoot suit, you’ll find a uniquely American story of style. You’ll also find a story about the ways in which Black and brown youths are criminalized for the looks they adopt.

Fred Astaire wore a necktie as a belt. Gene Kelly sported white socks with his suits to draw eyes to his feet. Even in those eras, American style was more playful, more comfortable than those from ...

The zoot suit style fell out of favor after WWII ... after a fight between a number of U.S. sailors and young Mexican-American men in zoot suits. Police racially profiled individuals wearing ...

Founded in 1899 by Jacob Freeman and Jeremiah Hickey, Hickey Freeman specializes in high-quality American-made suiting. With a garment factory in Rochester, New York, the brand produces a range of ...

It was, as the historian Kathy Peiss writes in Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, “perhaps the first time in American history that fashion was believed to be the cause of wide ...

Joseph Abboud is one of the leaders in this arena, and they keep their entire production within American ... suits you should have in your closet to fulfill all of your suiting and style needs.

High finance, long a bastion of suit-and-tie traditionalism ... of Brooks Brothers signal the decline of a distinctively American style of clothing. Although less formal than Europeans, Americans ...

debuted its No. 1 Sack Suit in 1901, and filled American closets with tweed jackets and Shetland knits. Today, we think of this as Old Money style, and it makes sense, as Brooks Brothers dressed ...