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In Episode 4 the Project Runway designers were given outdated fashions and broken into teams with the challenge to update their trends AND make them part of a cohesive collection. Our at-home approximation was for each of us to choose the trend we would have chosen and then work together as a team to create a collection. I chose poodle skirts and Alan chose the zoot suit . The teams were also asked to determine their own leaders, and we chose me (Wendi). Here's what we came up wit (gratzindustries.blogspot.com....oodle.html)
I'm already a fan of circle skirts see my entry for Project Barbie 01 so the choice of poodle skirt was an easy one. When Alan chose zoot suit I knew right away that I wanted to do a striped skirt. Since a poodle skirt is really a circle skirt I couldn't use a striped fabric. The stripes in the front and back would have been vertical, but they would have been horizontal on the sides which might have looked weird. Maybe not though I might try that some day. (gratzindustries.blogspot.com....oodle.html)
I was able to use a stripe for my sleeveless top (inspired by a zoot suit vest). I really like the narrow stripes in the top paired with the slightly wider stripes in the skirt. And I was very happy with the colors. We went through a LOT of piles of fabric before we chose colors and I was happy to come up with something that used two colors neither of us have used yet. Plus, these are the colors of my favorite handbag the one people always want to buy when I carry it so I hope the judges like it. :- (gratzindustries.blogspot.com....oodle.html)
I was excited to be updating a zoot suit , since that's a look I like. Not a look I wear, mind you-it's definitely outmoded. But I love the stripes and long coats associated with zoot suit s. I had a very specific stripe in mind for this challenge, but after raiding our Mood closet I knew we didn't have what I wanted. On a trip to Asheville I actually stopped at a fabric store and went on a search for what I was looking for, but that proved as fruitless as going to a used bookstore looking for a particular book. I didn't even have a color in mind-just a certain size stripe with a clean look. I found nada (gratzindustries.blogspot.com....oodle.html)
"It was the secret fantasy of every vato living in or out of the pachucada to put on the zoot suit and play the myth. " - Edward James Olmos , as El Pachuco in the 1981 film Zoot Suit . From (www.westword.com....sue=220647)
It's only March, yet there's already a winner for Rock 'n' Roll Comeback of the Year. Fifties rocker the Big Bopper - or, to be clinically precise, his recently exhumed corpse - is back on the scene and causing a commotion louder than his pinstriped zoot suit , size 52 Husk (www.spinner.com....orrifying/)
Edward James Olmos connection: No Olmos, but there57;s definitely a connection. Luis Valdez wrote and directed La Bamba as well as Zoot Suit , which starred Olmos as El Pachuo. Esai Morales and Olmos both starred in Mi Familia . (loteriachicana.....gory/cine/)
Depp, nattier than usual in a brown zoot suit , with dark rimmed glasses, a wicked 'stache and an antique watch fob, made self-effacing cracks about himself and his career during the esteemed film critic-author Richard Schickel 's Q A (latimesblogs.latimes.com....g/2005/11/)
Edward James Olmos connection: No Olmos, but there57;s definitely a connection. Luis Valdez wrote and directed La Bamba as well as Zoot Suit , which starred Olmos as El Pachuo. Esai Morales and Olmos both starred in Mi Familia (loteriachicana.net/2007/09/)
Zoot Allure The kids are alright: I just finished reading " The Next Stage ," Laura Bond's April 22 article on the Zoot Suit Riots production at North High School. I wanted to thank (www.westword.com....sue=224113)
Student actors at North High School learned a lot from Zoot Suit Riots , the musical that took over their school - and their lives - this spring (" The Next Stage ," April 22). They learned, for (www.westword.com....sue=224257)
Dante, a young man in a red and black zoot suit and a wide-brimmed hat, was singing Jazz standards in the dining room. In the middle of his set, Dante called up a woman he said was a trailblazer in the local jazz scene, Mickey Champion. (seattlepi.nwsource.com....sey05.html)
Mexicans and blacks were dragged into the streets by soldiers and civilians, wrote Agel and Glanze, where they were stripped and beaten. The response of the Los Angeles city council was positively Bush-like. Rather than address the issues of cheap labor and racism, they made it a misdemeanor to wear a zoot suit . (www.counterpunch.org....12006.html)
This film is about Chicanos and their history during the 1940's, andeven though it's about the gang, the actual Zoot Suit and the endingare all very symbolic, and this movie should be credited for all thecreativity and work put into this brilliant masterpiece (us.imdb.com/title/tt0083365/)
The songs were good, but what I really enjoyed was the acting, JamesOmos is talent behind measurement, yet he receives no credit for such arole. He doesn't play the role, he is the Zoot Suit . All around theacting from everyone was excellent, I wouldn't change a thing about thefilm (us.imdb.com/title/tt0083365/)
MC Hammer hit up the 4th Annual Peapod Foundation Benefit Concert hosted by The Black Eyed Peas and the Entertainment Industry Foundation looking so fresh and so clean with his zoot suit swag in full effect. Looks like those checks started coming back in a lil bit. (www.bossip.com..../nia-long/)
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In Episode 4 the Project Runway designers were given outdated fashions and broken into teams with the challenge to update their trends AND make them part of a cohesive collection. Our at-home approximation was for each of us to choose the trend we would have chosen and then work together as a team to create a collection. I chose poodle skirts and Alan chose the zoot suit . The teams were also asked to determine their own leaders, and we chose me (Wendi). Here's what we came up with (gratzindustries.blogspot.com....chive.html)
I'm already a fan of circle skirts see my entry for Project Barbie 01 so the choice of poodle skirt was an easy one. When Alan chose zoot suit I knew right away that I wanted to do a striped skirt. Since a poodle skirt is really a circle skirt I couldn't use a striped fabric. The stripes in the front and back would have been vertical, but they would have been horizontal on the sides which might have looked weird. Maybe not though I might try that some day (gratzindustries.blogspot.com....chive.html)
(I know-it's tough to read that small, and clicking on it won't help. I was able to read a larger picture though. Trust me on this.) I can't read the word on the banana suit on the left, but the other four images are labeled "Zoot Suit ," "Pleather," "Overalls," and "Poodle Skirt," respectively. Now, these aren't exactly fashion don'ts-at least, they haven't always been fashion don'ts-but they are certainly not looks that would get you in the pages of Elle Magazine these days. And herein, I believe , lies the challenge (gratzindustries.blogspot.com....chive.html)
i have read the comment about SWING KIDS not being authentic. well, afterdoing a bit of research on this topic (swing scene in germany in the thirdreich) i have to say that there was quite a big scene there. yes, the filmmight have exaggerated a bit (the hair was not quite as long and they hadtocut down on the way they dressed even though they tried as much as theycould on the zoot suit front). but it is a fact that there were dances indifferent cafes and they didnt like the Nazi regime.so i would say give the film makers some slack and a bit of artisticfreedom!they tried to portray a group of youngsters that found cure in music andstuck together in a difficult time.i really appreciated this film as normally you wouldnt know about them atall!two thumbs up from me as well (www.imdb.com/title/tt0108265/)
One of my best pals in NYC, we57;ll call her Polly, has a great story about this time she was at a bar and had been stood up by a guy she was starting to date. Some Micky Rourke-esque guy sidled up to her and her consoling friend at the bar. He had everything but the zoot suit 52; including a little jumpy guy named Sal who finished his sentences. Let57;s say his name was 60;Mike61;. After a bit of chit chat with the ladies, he asked, 60;Why you lookin so sad tonight, sweetheart?61 (www.bookninja.com/?m=200712)
In a great many of Martin 's multi-paneled features, a character will eventually achieve a moment of almost epileptic self-destruction. (See, for instance, the boggle-eyed gentleman wearing a green zoot suit on the poster titled Fight Demeaning Plebney. These frenetic epiphanies are usually accompanied by Martin 's endlessly inventive sounds - Durp, Faglork, Kloonk, Thwop, Skroinch, Glong, Ook Ook and many others. (In the final panel, the frazzled and wide-eyed character often looks directly out from the page, as if asking the reader to share in his bewilderment and discomfiture.) Martin 's colleagues and admirers revere his onomatopoeic diction almost as much as they do his drawings of slack-jawed urban yokels (www.washingtonpost.com....02820.html)
In a great many of Martin 's multi-paneled features, a character will eventually achieve a moment of almost epileptic self-destruction. (See, for instance, the boggle-eyed gentleman wearing a green zoot suit on the poster titled "Fight Demeaning Plebney.") These frenetic epiphanies are usually accompanied by Martin 's endlessly inventive sounds - "Durp," "Faglork," "Kloonk," "Thwop," "Skroinch," "Glong," "Ook Ook" and many others. (In the final panel, the frazzled and wide-eyed character often looks directly out from the page, as if asking the reader to share in his bewilderment and discomfiture.) Martin 's colleagues and admirers revere his onomatopoeic diction almost as much as they do his drawings of slack-jawed urban yokels (www.amazon.com....boing0e-20)
One team gets the baggy sweater/dancewear/shoulder pads combo (which seems the most challenging to me). Another has overalls, poodle skirts and 70âs flare. Then thereâs underwear as outerwear, neon and cut-outs. We get our first dramatic tidbit of the episode where, for no discernable reason, Ricky says he thinks Victorya seems âa little bossy.â The Cockatielâs team gets a pleather/zoot suit /fringe combination. The Cockatiel tells us that he will henceforth call his team âTeam Star, because Team Star is like hot, like star, like celebrity.â This guy is a cartoon (L) (blogs.nypost.com....s/2007/12/)
Inside the screen, surrounded by wisps of white gossamer floss, is a diorama, in black and white , but mostly dulled brown. At its center is an image so small and colorless you can barely make it out: a cardboard cutout of the famous photo of Elvis in 1955 or '56, dressed in the zoot-suit drapes of Memphis ' Beale Street, his body loosed, his head thrown back in ecstasy and abandon. His stage is dirt, his proscenium arch the gaping door of a barn and his audience - gathered at a respectful distance - is a rapt crowd of cows, pigs and chickens. The scene is uncanny in its stillness, without a hint of coyness or condescension; you get the feeling that something extraordinary is taking place in this silent concert. You lean forward, as if you could go through the screen, to take part (www.salon.com....70812.html)
The director filmed inside the Dresden Room on Vermont Avenue and used the real aging duo, Marty and Elaine, you can find crooning away inside the dimly lit, heavily packed lounge on almost any night. Nearby is the Derby, of Hollywood-in-the-1940s fame (when it was the Brown Derby), which was used as the backdrop for the far-flung swing dancing turns and twists featured in the film. When the Derby reopened in the same building that once housed Michael 's, it attracted an assorted crowd of sharply pressed suits from the Zoot Suit era and tall bouffants laced with enough hair spray to ignite the dance floor. (www.salon.com....70513.html)
After a short stint as a rock singer, Olmos gained critical attention for his role in the musical Zoot Suit (197851;80). For his performance as the police lieutenant in the TV series Miami Vice (198451;89) he won an Emmy (1985). His film career includes acting in and coproducing the films The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983) and Stand and Deliver (1988); for the latter he received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a math teacher (www.infoplease.com....61824.html)
Blitzed: The Autobiography of Steve Strange is the candid, if lumpen autobiography, of night club impresario, pop star and founding father of New Romanticism, Steve Strange. For a nanosecond in the early 1980s he was the most fashionable man on the planet; the driving force behind of the legendary Billy's and Blitz clubs and the "singer" with electro pop pioneers Visage. Nearly 20 years and over £100,000 of heroin later he was caught stealing a Teletubby doll from a supermarket. Ignominious declines have rarely been more spectacular but Strange, who in 1982 spent £1,500 on a fetching leather zoot suit , always did have a penchant for excess (www.amazon.co.uk....0752847201)
3-d scenes always stand out as being solely for that purpose; the best onein this flick is doubtless the cops in the snap-the-whip ride in theamusement park. None the less, these oddities do not redeem Man in theDark , a true B-flick, which suffers from a hackneyed script and collegedrama society acting. I like Edmund O'Brien but he can't rise above thismaterial. Interesting period footnote: the flick contains the best exampleI've seen of what used to be called a zoot suit , a type of outfitfavoredby thugs, real and aspiring. It is worn by Nick Dennis as Cookie (theshortguy; he went on to play Dionysius in Spartacus ) (www.imdb.com/title/tt0046036/)
During the good (sic) war, young Mexican workers entered the U.S. en masse in response to a worker shortage on the Pacific coast. Over time, some Latino youths formed gangs and dressed almost exclusively in zoot suit s. A zoot suit , as described by authors Walter Glanze and Jerome Agel, is made up of a very long jacket, flared at the bottom, with exaggeratedly padded, boxy shoulders, and pegged sleeves. The trousers are pleated at the waistline, cut very wide over the hips, and taper to such narrow bottoms that men with big feet have trouble slipping the pants on (www.counterpunch.org....12006.html)
While the zoot suit eventually attained widespread popularity in the mainstream, it also became a pejorative synonym for Mexican on the West Coast as some Americans took umbrage at so many able-bodied young men who were not helping to win the war . To the local white population of Los Angeles, the manufacture of the zoot suit was a glaring example of waste in a time that demanded sacrifice in the name of defending democracy (as it were). This perception inevitably led to racist violence sparked by angry white soldiers on leave (www.counterpunch.org....12006.html)
Kendall smiles as she takes a bottle from the bag she brought and says she heard a nice bottle of wine goes with anything, Do you want to do the honors?' When he ignores that, Kendall shrugs as she pulls out an opener and notes that she came prepared. Boyd asks if she's going to tell him what happened tonight? He thought she was with Cambias! Ms. Hart sidles up to him and purrs, Open your eyes , Boyd! I'm here to be with you. The phone rings as Boyd asks if she's telling him that she and Cambias are over? Ms. Hart suggests he get that, while she takes care of the wine. Boyd answers, and Bianca tells him to drop whatever he was doing, put on his zoot suit , and haul it down to S.O.S., The music is hot, and Myrtle is looking for a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy! Boyd says he can't, that Kendall's here, and he hangs up. She comes back with the wine, and asks who that was? Boyd says it's not important, and Kendall proposes a toast to no more interruptions. Boyd again asks what all of this is about, adding that he saw her last night with Cambia (allmychildren.about.com....030417.htm)
Trivia: The character of Henry Reyna was based upon the real-life zoot-suiter Henry "Hank" Leyvas, who was tried and wrongfully convicted for first-degree murder of Jose Diaz, after an incident on 1 August 1942. The film and the play that preceded it conformed to the facts of the actual case. The appeals court overturned the earlier verdict and Reyna and his friends were set free in 1945, following the Zoot Suit Riots and the banning of zoot suit s in Los Angeles (courtesy of the Los Angeles City Council) in 1944. Many futures and outcomes for Reyna were given in the film and the play. In real life , Leyvas was convicted some years later for selling drugs. He served ten years and was released, and soon opened a family restaurant . He died of a heart attack in 1971. more (us.imdb.com/title/tt0083365/)
The records document administration and general operations of the districts.Most are arranged according to the subject classification scheme of the Navy Filing Manual (A series), 1942-1956. Some records concern the1943 Zoot Suit riots, a week of rioting between military personnel andcivilian Mexican youths in Los Angeles. There are correspondence, histories,organizational charts, regulations, and reports. Nontextual records include maps and photographs (www.archives.gov....0-199.html)
Not everyone looks a million dollars in a 50s-style zoot suit , a 60s mini skirt or even 70s-style Afghan coat. But if you fancy yourself as a debonair Cary Grant in a dapper suit, or an elegant Audrey Hepburn in a cocktail dress, then vintage clothes are just the thing . The question is where to find them (www.thelondonpaper.com....ate%3Dnull)
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