I want to be a cowboy. I want to live on a ranch and ride horses all day... and I want to do so while wearing a glittery Nudie Suit. Nudie Cohn the famous rodeo tailor dressed everyone from Roy Rogers, Johnny Cash and Porter Waggoner to Cher, Elton John and Jimmy Page. His looks and cars were just as flashy and flamboyant as the man who made them... and the Hollywood icons who wore them.
Kinda dreamy, right? Oh to be a rhinestone cowboy. Who wants to join me in campfire songs and bedazzled horseback riding?
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| Sonny and Cher in Nudie designs |
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| Burrito Brothers in Nudies |
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| Gram & Nudie (image via) What a babe. Gram, not Nudie. |
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| Elvis & Nudie |
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| Nudie fitting a model (image via my copy of Nudie The Rodeo Tailor) |
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| Nudie and a Nudie Mobile (Photo by Mike Salisbury via and via) |
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| Roy Rogers' suit collection... presumably Nudie (via Life Archives) |
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| Roy and a trusty steed... living my dream life (via Life Archives) |