[Fiji Hill]

You should take a look at how some people in the country really lived and dressed at that time . It wasn't just a few considering it was also the time of the dust bowl.

Indeed, it wasn't fun living in the Dust Bowl, where the fashion-conscious had to take their zoot suits to the dry cleaners frequently to clean out the dust.

Dust--The Sons of the Pioneers (with Roy Rogers) (1938)

Dusty Skies--Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys (1941)

A Zoot Suit--The Andrews Sisters (1942)

[Taft in '52]

Checkered suits, polkadot ties, raccoon coats and zoot suits? It must have been fun to go people-watching during the Great Depression.