Zoot suits – 1948 (Photo : Douglas Miller – Life)
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This is 💎
It looks like it could’ve been shot yesterday.
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I like this picture!
Zoot suit riot!
Full caption for this photo from Getty Images:
>Three Jamaican immigrants (left to right) John Hazel, a 21-year-old boxer, Harold Wilmot, 32, and John Richards, a 22-year-old carpenter, arriving at Tilbury on board the ex-troopship ‘Empire Windrush’, smartly dressed in zoot suits and trilby hats. June 22, 1948.
From Wikipedia:
>The ship HMT Empire Windrush brought a group of 802 migrants to the port of Tilbury, near London, on 22 June 1948. Empire Windrush was a troopship en route from Australia to England via the Atlantic, docking in Kingston, Jamaica, in order to pick up servicemen who were on leave. An advertisement had appeared in a Jamaican newspaper offering cheap transport on the ship for anybody who wanted to come and work in the United Kingdom. Many former servicemen took this opportunity to return to Britain with the hopes of rejoining the RAF, while others decided to make the journey just to see what England was like. The arrivals were temporarily housed in the Clapham South deep shelter in southwest London, about two miles (three kilometres) away from Coldharbour Lane in Brixton. Many intended to stay in Britain for a no more than few years and a number did return to the Caribbean, but the majority remained to settle permanently. The arrival of the passengers has become an important landmark in the history of modern Britain, and the image of West Indians filing off the ship’s gangplank has come to symbolise the beginning of modern British multicultural society.
Dapper! 🌸
2 of the three look quite snappy today
Bell, Biv, DeVoe – now you know
I wish people dressed with more pride today. Myself included.
Thought that was gq magazine 1988.
Sorry, but those are not zoot suits. Look up what real zoot suits look like. It ain’t them.
Where has fashion gone:/
Now this IS old school cool.
“I put new forgis on the jeep…”