Zoot suit Zoot suit A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, ged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. This style of clothing became especially popular among the Latino, African American, Italian American, and Filipino American communities during the 1940s. Some observers claim that the "Edwardian-look" suits with velvet lapels worn by Teddy Boys in Britain are a derivative of the zoot suit. Zoot suits were first associated with African Americans in urban communities such as Harlem, Chicago, and Detroit, but were made popular by jazz musicians in the
The Wrong Trousers – Animafest Zagreb in 1994. "The Wrong Trousers" won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In September 2018, "The Wrong Trousers" inspired the development of the exoskeleton suit for disabled people. The Wrong Trousers The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British stop-motion animated short film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It is the second film featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit, following "A Grand Day Out" (1989)"." In the film, a sinister penguin uses Wallace and Gromit's robotic "Techno Trousers" to steal a