Excerpt from <i>Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style</i> by Kathy Peiss

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Blues: an ethnographic essay about culture and its reflections on clothing by Cristiano Max Pereira Pinheiro, André Conti Silva, Morgana Schoerpf Petry, Débora Wissmann

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Being Edward James Olmos: Culture Clash and the Portrayal of Chicano Masculinity by Nohemy Solózano-Thompson

“…This paper analyzes how Culture Clash problematizes Chicano masculinity through the manipulation of two iconic Chicano characters originally popularized by two films starring Edward James Olmos - the pachuco from Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit (1981) and the portrayal of real-life math teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988). …”
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An axiomatic design theory for design of apparel products by Yu Zhao, Dahui Zhu, Feng Zhou, Jing Song, Wenjun Zhang

“…The proposed theory is preliminarily validated with the Zoot suit, which is well known in the community of apparel design. …”
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Emociones y ciudad: los motines de pachucos y la prensa del noreste estadounidense by Ivonne Meza Huacuja

“…En el caso de esta investigación, mi análisis se centra en el estudio del manejo de las emociones por parte de la prensa del noreste estadounidense durante los llamados zoot-suit riots o motines de pachucos protagonizados por jóvenes marinos y adolescentes mexicoamericanos en la ciudad de Los Ángeles, California, en el verano de 1943. …”
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