[HN Gopher] A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire
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A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire
Author : Anon84
Score : 58 points
Date : 2023-12-17 13:39 UTC (2 days ago)
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| tiahura wrote:
| Seems 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-nud...
| subpixel wrote:
| To 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 wrote:
| Crossing 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_ wrote:
| Maybe it was in pesos?
| sonicanatidae wrote:
| The 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 wrote:
| Would watch the first 5mins of this netflix series before I
| got distracted and ordered a pizza and...wait what was I
| doing?
| _cje wrote:
| > 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...
| williamcotton wrote:
| Jerry Garcia:
|
| https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DaDoCUT4ML8/maxresdefault.jpg
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| Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers:
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| https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Fl...
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| Nudie and Gram:
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| 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 wrote:
| Cool! Without Grateful Dead, would there even be a Silicon
| Valley!? (I'm only half-joking...)
| tetris11 wrote:
| Greatly interested, please expand!
| williamcotton wrote:
| Jerry 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!
| jMyles wrote:
| I 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
| williamcotton wrote:
| Oh man, loving it, I just subscribed, so you better put
| some Dead covers on YT for me!
| subsubzero wrote:
| Thanks for providing images of the suit, quite strange the
| article never shows a single image of the iconic suit he
| created.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Mike Mills (of R.E.M.):
|
| https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/b67/a2e/a00e6ba7b7a66520191b...
| gnatman wrote:
| Just in case any other Deadheads were curious about that
| guitar, it's a walnut stratocaster built by Dan Erlewine, who
| also built "Lucy", Albert King's flying V guitar. It's likely
| they were built from the same batch of wood. Known to be played
| on 11/18/72, 11/19/72, 11/22/72, 11/23/72, 12/10-12/72 (only on
| two of the nights, but Alligator was also played), and 5/13/73.
|
| https://www.rukind.com/viewtopic.php?t=14697
| https://deadessays.blogspot.com/2019/08/jerry-garcia-instrum...
| https://danerlewine.com/jerry-garcia-stratishcaster
| soupfordummies wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| I was thinking "Hmm, never seen that one before!" I dig the
| numeral fret inlays.
| davidw wrote:
| > By 13, he was sewing prom dresses for the girls in his town.
|
| Those have to be quinceanera dresses, right?
| dieselgate wrote:
| What a way to put someone into a box
|
| Edit: maybe they were but they don't "have" to be
| davidw wrote:
| A 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 wrote:
| Don't call him the Rhinestone Rembrandt, but _do_ call him the
| Beyonce of western wear.
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