Review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
… the world. The suit managed to generate a variety of meanings. Some interpreted it as a political statement, … often "understand clothing as primarily having a political meaning so that aesthetics are subsumed under the … like any other item of cultural significance, has multiple meanings and the important question to consider is who is …