Garment designers here described the zoot suit as a Los Angeles phenomenon, asserting that it had its genesis here about 10 years ago when it was discovered that young Filipinos had a liking for extreme styles in clothes. Altho [sic] the vogue did not last long with Filipinos, young Mexicans and Negroes began to wear the styles and to insist upon increasingly bizarre designs, it was said. From this demand there evolved the knee length coat with a deep vent in the back, pleats, many buttons, and cuffs on the sleeves. . . . Police explained that the zoot suit, elsewhere merely a garment affected by jive-bitten adolescents, has become here in the last few months a uniform for roving gangs of Mexican-Americans and Negroes from 16 to 25 years old.
a) Sailors and Mexican Youth Clash in LA
b) Florence Kelley's "Aims and Principles of the National Consumers League
c) Congressman who explored the labor practices done by Walmart
d) Jewish Immigrant Abraham Kohn Laments His Wanderings as a Peddler
