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A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire
- tiahura 3y agoSeems like the article should have been about his mentor, creator of the Nudie Suit, Kyiv born Nuta Kotlyarenko - Nudie Cohn. https://carriagemuseum.org/history-of-nudie-cohn-and-his-nudie-suits/ https://carriagemuseum.org/history-of-nudie-cohn-and-his-nud...
- subpixel 3y agoTo be fair, the article mentions him - and the lede here is that someone is still alive making them who has been doing it since the way back.
- dmboyd 3y agoCrossing the border with $40k cash in the 1950s would be the equivalent to $450k cash in 2023 dollars. Sounds like they got that bit wrong or there’s more to the story.
- evan_ 3y agoMaybe it was in pesos?
- sonicanatidae 3y agoThe 6 million peso man! We ran out of funding after the right leg, so while he can run at 60mph, he can only do it in circles.
- RobRivera 3y agoWould watch the first 5mins of this netflix series before I got distracted and ordered a pizza and...wait what was I doing?
- sonicanatidae 3y agoIts a very, very old joke. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was the movie, I think?
- _cje 3y ago> Gram Parsons, a longtime client of Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors and Manuel Couture, poses in his iconic marijuana-encrusted Nudie Suit. Parsons was once in a band called the Flying Burrito Brothers, and each member had their own Nudie suit. Rolling Stone ran a story not too long ago about one of them that had been lost [0]. Though it is somewhat odd to imagine the short number of years Parsons might have been a client given he died at 26. 0: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elton-john-missing-flying-burrito-brothers-nudie-suit-1234789732/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elton-john...
- potatosalad21 3y agoThat photo of Parsons in the original article almost looks like it could be contemporary, fashion going in circles as it does
- williamcotton 3y agoJerry Garcia: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DaDoCUT4ML8/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DaDoCUT4ML8/maxresdefault.jpg Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Flying-Burrito-Brothers-Gilded-Palace-Of-Sin-era-web-optimised-740.jpg https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Fl... Nudie and Gram: https://cmhof.imgix.net/content/uploads/2021/03/01231732/Gram-and-Nudie_Edit2.jpg?fit=crop&crop=faces,entropy,center&q=70&auto=format&or=0&fm=jpeg https://cmhof.imgix.net/content/uploads/2021/03/01231732/Gra... Hippies and rednecks? Like dogs and cats, right? Or maybe both are just a little rough around the edges and misunderstood. Willie Nelson sure figured out that market pretty well!
- cpach 3y agoCool! Without Grateful Dead, would there even be a Silicon Valley!? (I’m only half-joking…)
- tetris11 3y agoGreatly interested, please expand!
- williamcotton 3y agoJerry Garcia met Bob Weir at a music store in Palo Alto where Jerry was giving banjo lessons. Bob Weir’s lyricist, JP Barlow, was a founding member of the EFF. There’s a lot more than just that, but I got some code to review!
- sojournerc 3y agoThere's a great autobiography written by Barlow, "Mother American Night". Highly recommend
- jMyles 3y agoI often wonder this. I play bluegrass and other traditional music at tech events, along with talks that essentially explore this and proximal questions. As to the specific lineage of this music through Bill Monroe -=> Jerry Garcia -=> John Perry Barlow -=> EFF/archive.org/etc, I had a sit-down with my producer where we recorded a sort of video-open-letter to a few friends on this topic: https://youtu.be/bYLrIGOEVPU?t=193 https://youtu.be/bYLrIGOEVPU?t=193
- davidw 3y ago> By 13, he was sewing prom dresses for the girls in his town. Those have to be quinceanera dresses, right?
- dieselgate 3y agoWhat a way to put someone into a box Edit: maybe they were but they don't "have" to be
- davidw 3y agoA village in Mexico in 1946 seems a lot more likely to have a market for quinceanera dresses than prom dresses. "Have to" is a figure of speech in conversational English.
- happytiger 3y agoDon’t call him the Rhinestone Rembrandt, but do call him the Beyonce of western wear.
- vincengomes 3y agoThe title gave me the impression that a man started a western wear Empire at the age of 90.