Monica L. Miller
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2 Aug
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So that when we step out onto the floor and you or I spin around, that's when you get to see the legs billowing out.
And that's when you get to see the sort of dynamism of the garment.
Millions of African-Americans are moving from the rural South to the cities in the North, and they're also moving West.
This suit sort of follows that migration route and makes it up to Harlem, where it initially has this real association with entertainment and dancing and jazz.
It's brought by African-Americans, but is really taken on by Mexican-American youth there, by Filipino-American youth, by Japanese-American youth, right?
So it travels in that way and kind of spreads out to other people.
Some people are wearing it simply as fashion, as an exaggeration of a suit jacket that had already been, in fashion history, the drape jacket had already been getting slightly bigger.
Some people are wearing it because they're dancers.
They're really, really interested in
in the way that the garment allows for movement.
Jazz is a new, like jazz clubs.
The Savoy Ballroom held 4,000 people.
Commutal dancing is a really, really big thing.
Some people though are wearing it because it's also at this moment becoming a kind of perceived uniform of youth culture gangs that might have a criminal edge.
Some people are wearing it as a subcultural garment
that is signalling affinity and or membership.
People also just, like, improvised, right?
So this is why it's such a youth culture moment.
It's the beginnings of many trends that we see, you know, 100 years later, right?
Because some people just bought oversized coats, right?
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