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fashion historians, and your host, Cassie Zachary and April Callahan. Just listeners, welcome back to part two of our Met Gala coverage for this year. Yes. We thought this is going to be one episode,

but apparently not. Yes. And if you have not

tuned into Wednesday's episode, we started our coverage of the annual Met Gala, which was this

past Monday. Of course, it was in collaboration with the new Costume Institute exhibition at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art, super fine, tailoring black

style, a celebration of black dandyism. And we are here to continue our coverage of the blue

carpet with the theme of tailoring for you. And as you remember from Wednesday's episode, we had

lots to say, and we still have lots to say, April.

Exactly.

And what better homage to the history of black dandyism in general than the thing I want to talk about first today, which is the zoot suit.

There were various versions worn by various attendees at the gala last night, which was really cool to see.

And the zoot suit is a style distinctive to black and Latin X culture. And whenever you see it,

it makes a powerful statement. And it comes with a powerful history, which I'm going to

briefly talk about here. And so the Zook suit is considered the first truly American suit by design. And it has,

if you did not know what I'm talking about, it is usually comprised of this long oversized coat,

complete with wide lapels and padded shoulders. You heard April and I talking about on Wednesday,

this distinctive sharp shoulder that was on the

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