zoot suit
Example Sentences
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What’s the story with the lime green zoot suit?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
Decked out in a resplendent orange-and-blue-striped zoot suit symbolizing the colors of his beloved New York Knicks, Spike Lee hit the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet in May in full boogie mode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
Elsewhere, we check in on how a freshly liberated Mitch McConnell is putting on his zoot suit and spats and living it up a little.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2024
Artist John M. Valadez, who came of age in Boyle Heights in the 1950s and ’60s, says that even after the zoot suit had disappeared, “the pants were still a thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
Here I am in my zoot suit, thinking how country everybody looks compared to me.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
