So I was walking down the street yesterday (here in Chicago) with my girlfriend and we were kind of a little more than baked and walking up to this new vegan fast food restaurant when we encountered probably the weirdest fashion I’ve ever seen that left me actually speechless.
It was three latinos, two guys and a chick, all doing some insanely detailed late-30s/early40s wartime/depression styles. The girl was wearing super high-waisted pants that started tight and went out into billowy tent shapes. Total “right around the time girls started to wear pants” look. On top of that was a silk blouse and a fucking turban. Dude on the right was wearing jeans and a denim coat, but cut like how jeans and denim coats were cut before they were tailored and fashionable, when the only guys who wore jeans were prematurely aged Dust Bowl farmers. The kicker is that they were totally clean and crisp and I don’t know where dude scored them, unless he’s buying from the crazy Japanese dudes who make extremely exact selvage reproductions of pre-cool jeans.
The other dude I have have no idea what he was wearing. My brain was already so beat up from seeing the other two that I couldn’t even process him. My girlfriend tells me he was wearing the same crisp grandpa jeans but that he topped it with a leather jacket and a leather cap, meaning that the guy was completely reclaiming the leather daddy cap from the gays. Super intense.
My question is, is this a thing? Are latinos seriously rocking some pre-WWII fashion? Since they aren’t black (cool) or white (own the internet) latinos have these weird trends that never pop up in mainstream USA culture. If this is a thing, it means that brown people are stealing styles from high school history books and that idea is just blowing my mind.
Miles
PS I had my camera but the shock of their style left me completely unable to operate it.
PPS I’m trying to do a summer look called Crust Prep. It’s like black on black J Crew. What do you think?
[Photos from Google Images based on kind of what he seems to be talking about]
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Just to be clear, this is not a hole in her tights. It’s a hole in the ass-time continuum that will swallow your entire paycheck if you go near it.
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Nothing is sexier than WWII. Nothing. A bunch of strong young men going overseas to fight pure evil and sleep with European prostitutes, then coming home to impregnate every attractive woman they saw a thousand times over. I’m entirely serious. These kids are visionaries and are probably getting more than any of us.
The depression is kinda sexy too, come to think of it. All that desperation probably led to a bunch of sexual tension all the time, but the kind you could act on cause, fuck, you didn’t know if you’d be able to eat the next day so why the hell not?
05.23.08 at 8:54 am
this would fly in the face of how puerto ricans and dominicans dress in nyc
05.23.08 at 9:30 am
I bet they call them “dungarees” instead of “jeans”, just like my grandpa.
05.23.08 at 10:00 am
they’re probably extras from a movie.
05.23.08 at 10:02 am
Stealing stuff from history books?
So clearly this person is ignorant of the Zoot Suit Riots.
05.23.08 at 12:36 pm
Michael Mann is currently shooting his Dillinger movie here in Chicago. Case closed.
05.23.08 at 2:08 pm
no pictures no proof!
05.23.08 at 11:01 pm
The wardrobe person was propably really happy about them running around town in costume,getting ketchup all over it…
05.25.08 at 8:26 am
my himmler dressing bitch has a the flyest ass you ever seen, she got the nicest swastika tatt on that shitt
05.26.08 at 6:19 pm
PS – FAKE
no picture no belief
05.26.08 at 6:20 pm
Is that a vegan restaurant with hambugers and hotdogs? That’s kind of like saying, “I don’t do drugs, just heroin and crack.”
05.26.08 at 11:43 pm
just heroin and crack.”
uuuuh, wouldn’t it be more like pot and shrooms?
still, strange
05.27.08 at 5:52 am
I saw those three at bluesfest this past summer. i love it. The three were probably thirty-ish and think this case if very much isolated to them and not “a young latinos in chicago thing”.The only time I have seen latino’s dressed that way was in southern California.its not new. This kinda think hits majorly in orange county/so cal; its the Pachuco, Zoot Suite style and you can find young mexicans at the car shows,hot rod lincoln show, and the hootenanny fest dressed like this all the time. http://www.thehootenanny.com/
12.23.08 at 7:04 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80643375@N00/356743212/
12.23.08 at 7:10 pm
man, we probably could have gotten a bunch of white people to start dressing like this, but then hippy lettuce had to go and fucking blow it. way to go dude!
01.09.09 at 12:06 pm