Zoot Suit (1981)
Francis X. McCarthy: Press
Quotes
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El Pachuco : The idea of the original chuco is to look like a diamond, to look sharp, hip, bonaroo, finding a style of urban survival in the rural skirts and outskirts of the brown metropolis of Los, Cabron.
Press : It's an afront to good taste!
El Pachuco : Like the Mexicans, Filipinos and blacks who wear them?
Press : Yes!
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Press : You are trying to outdo the white man in exaggerated white man's clothes.
El Pachuco : Because everyone knows that Mexicans, Filipinos and Blacks belong to the huraache . . . the straw hat and the dirty overall.
Press : You savages weren't even wearing clothes when the white man pulled you out of the jungle.
