Nudies Rodeo Tailors to Stars Hollywood California Custom Java Coffee Cup Mug

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Nudies Rodeo Tailors to Stars Hollywood California Custom Java Coffee Cup Mug:
$39.99

This is an off white 12 ounce coffee mug from the the Nudie\'s Custom Java named for the legendary Nudie\'s Rodeo Tailor\'s of Hollywood, California. The mug features not one, but two iconic Nudie\'s Rodeo Tailor logos, one on each side of the mug. Nudie\'s Custom Java is owned and operated by Nudie\'s granddaughter, Jamie Nudie and features Nudie memorabilia throughout the establishment.
Nuta Kotlyarenko, known professionally as Nudie Cohn (December 15, 1902 – May 9, 1984), was a Ukrainian-born American tailor who designed decorative rhinestone-covered suits, known popularly as \"Nudie Suits\", and other elaborate outfits for some of the most famous celebrities of his era. He also became famous for his outrageous customized automobiles. Nudie started off making G-strings for burlesque showgirls in New York City and was the first to embellish clothing with rhinestones. Nudie and his wife relocated to California in the early 1940\'s, and began designing and manufacturing clothing in their garage. In 1947 he persuaded a young, struggling country singer named Tex Williams to buy him a sewing machine with the proceeds of an saleed horse. In exchange, Cohn made clothing for Williams. As their creations gained a following, the Cohns opened \"Nudie\'s of Hollywood\" on the corner of Victory and Vineland in North Hollywood, dealing exclusively in western wear, a style very much in fashion at the time. Cohn\'s designs brought the already-flamboyant western style to a new level of ostentation with the liberal use of rhinestones and themed images in chain stitch embroider
They first approached Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in the early 1950\'s and eventually became their custom tailors, suiting them for every appearance and becoming their personal friends. One of his early designs, in 1962, for singer Porter Wagoner, was a peach-colored suit featuring rhinestones, a covered wagon on the back, and wagon wheels on the legs. He offered the suit to Wagoner for free, confident that the popular performer would serve as a billboard for his clothing line. His confidence proved justified and the business grew rapidly. In 1963 the Cohns relocated their business to a larger facility on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood and renamed it \"Nudie\'s Rodeo Tailors\".
Many of Cohn\'s designs became signature looks for their owners. Among his most famous creations was Elvis Presley\'s $10,000 gold lamé suit, worn by the singer on the cover of his 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can\'t Be Wrong album. He designed the iconic costume worn by Robert Redford in the 1979 film Electric Horseman, which is now owned and exhibited by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. He created Hank Williams\' white cowboy suit with musical notations on the sleeves, and Gram Parsons\' infamous suit for the cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers\' 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin, featuring pills, poppies, marijuana leaves, naked women, and a huge cross. Many of the film costumes worn by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were Nudie designs. John Lennon was a customer, as were John Wayne, Gene Autry, George Jones, Cher, Ronald Reagan, Elton John, Robert Mitchum, Pat Buttram, Tony Curtis, Michael Landon, Glen Campbell, Hank Snow, and numerous musical groups, notably America and Chicago. ZZ Top band members Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill sported \"Nudie Suits\" on the cover photo of their 1975 album Fandango! In 2006 Porter Wagoner said he had accumulated 52 Nudie Suits, costing between $11,000 and $18,000 each, since receiving his first free outfit in 1962.
Cohn strutted around town in his own outrageous suits and rhinestone-studded cowboy hats. His sartorial trademark was mismatched boots, which he wore, he said, to remember his humble beginnings in the 1930s when he could not afford a matching pair of shoes.