[Ads-l] Antedating of "Zoot Suit"

[Shapiro, Fred]

zoot suit (OED 1942)

1941 Los Angeles Evening Citizen News 5 Aug. 6/7 (Newspapers.com)

Pot, Pan and Skillet ... have rapidly become comedy favorites by virtue of their performances in "Jump for Joy," the all-Negro musical revue which stars Duke Ellington .... highlighted by a side-splitting performance in "Made to Order," a tailor-shop sketch ... in which Pot orders a "zoot suit with a reet pleet."

Fred Shapiro

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