How to Use zoot suit in a Sentence

zoot suit

noun
  • The zoot suit and wallet chain became the new mohawk and combat boots.
    — Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 29 May 2018
  • LeBron James, the top pick that year, seems to have opted to rent a zoot suit for prom.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
  • So, yes, the zoot suit and the pachuco style have roots in substantive racial histories.
    — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • From fringy flapper dresses, to white zoot suits, to ornate headwear…a good time was indeed had by all.
    — Claire Goodman, Houston Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2020
  • But the overall look has more of a zoot suit vibe about it, and Kristen was really drawn to that.
    — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2023
  • The place had been there for 91 years, selling everything from Catholic school uniforms to zoot suits.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2019
  • David Weathers sported a shiny silver zoot suit right out of the Roaring '20s.
    — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
  • Pachuco Luis Garcia alleges that anyone wearing a zoot suit would be jailed if spotted on the streets.
    — Caterina Barbera Kipreos, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • When servicemen attacked, young men were savagely beaten, some stripped of their zoot suits and left naked and unconscious on the street.
    — David Alvarado, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
  • An ancient gentleman in a brown zoot suit that might have been purchased in that cut’s heyday stepped creakily out of a Cadillac.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Its broad shoulders nod to the zoot suit and its color palette matches that of the tuxedo, Professor Miller said.
    — Vincent Tullo, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • To prepare, Scott grew a pencil mustache, rented a zoot suit, and studied classic screwball comedies.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Fortunately for Che haters, there appears to be some future respite from scenes about the inner turmoil of being asked to wear a zoot suit in your pilot.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • Like the sentiments that drove the zoot suit riots of 1943, black and brown women are not allowed to indulge in overabundance.
    — Cate Young, Vox, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The zoot suit-sporting pachucos of Chicano lore originated in El Paso.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • For several nights, the servicemen, mostly sailors, went looking for the zoot suiters, and at least once going after a Latino man who was not wearing a zoot suit.
    — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Balvin took the stage wearing an all-white zoot suit and a matching hat that could’ve easily been a second option for his spectacular Met Gala look earlier in the week.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2025
  • While this week has been all about the zoot suit and sleek tailoring a la Met Gala 2025, Holmes has leaned into the suit as a canvas for summery prints.
    — Maria Goldbach, Vogue, 9 May 2025
  • Cab Calloway sported the infamous oversized zoot suit in the film, which was released during the same year that the Zoot Suit Riots occurred.
    — Michaela Zee, Variety, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Domingo wore the robe only for his entrance, however, handing it off to reveal a custom Valentino look inspired by 1940s zoot suits.
    — Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
  • But Valdez understood that the Pachuco in his zoot suit was the American experiment working exactly as promised.
    — David Alvarado, Time, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The zoot suit was the swagger of the moment and became a symbol of noncompliance and aesthetic autonomy in the face of racist policing and assimilationist pressure.
    — Alexandra Jane, Essence, 31 July 2025
  • Surrounded by a battalion of male dancers, all dressed in 1920s garb, JLo piruotted in wide white pants and a sparkly corsette that later gave way to a white zoot suit and matching hat.
    — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 20 May 2018
  • Another local man remembers hosting a garage sale at his house, and finding that Kale, wearing a zoot suit and a fedora, had wandered into their laundry room and was digging through his family’s dirty clothes.
    — Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Lee told Vogue red-carpet livestream cohost Ilana Glazer that her look meant to channel the zoot suit, voluminous menswear suiting that originated in Harlem in the mid-1930s.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The crowd wrapped around the funeral home was a cross section of El Paso — a mostly Hispanic group, young and old, dressed in suits and dresses, blue jeans and work shirts, zoot suits, motorcycle club colors, and military dress uniforms.
    — Robert Moore, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Like the zoot suit style, which originated in the African American community in Harlem and found popularity among other ethnic communities, Lee’s suit featured a long coat and loose, tapered pants.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 20 May 2025
  • Pachuco was a term used for Mexican American men in the 1930s and 40s who wore flashy zoot suits, spoke their own slang and formed a small but notable countercultural scene in Los Angeles.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Chavarria tells the story of American fashion through a Chicano lens, creating now-distinctive oversize, sculptural silhouettes that pull from various eras of Mexican American style, from sharply angular zoot suits to blue-collar workwear.
    — Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2025

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