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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jackie Kennedy's signature pillbox hat and matching pink suit, a replica of a Chanel style, became a symbol of mourning after the assassination of her husband, President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Figuring out how to buy a suit can be a tricky business. The options vary wildly in terms of style, silhouette and price. Get it right, however, and you’ll always look sharp and put together—a ...

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 ...