Zoot suit occasionally with a long feather as decoration, and pointy, French-style shoes. A young Malcolm X, who wore zoot suits in his youth, described the zoot suit as: "a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats, and shoulders padded like a lunatic's cell". Zoot suits usually featured a watch chain dangling from the belt to the knee or below, then back to a side pocket. A woman accompanying a man wearing a zoot suit commonly would herself wear a flared skirt and a long coat. The amount of material and tailoring required made them luxury items, so much so that
T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit is a witch based on a ruse Chloë attempted on a rival boy. In the end, what Chloë learns most is the danger of conformism. T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit (1993) is a young adult novel by E.L. Konigsburg, a two-time winner of the Newbery Medal. Chloë Pollack, in order to evade the pressures of her friends, agrees to spend the summer with her stepfather Nick's sister Bernadette, whom Chloë hasn't seen since Nick married her mother. At first, Chloë and Bernadette seem a poor match in personality and lifestyle, but Chloë has promised Nick