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Porter Wagnor and Nudie Cohen In 1953. Wagoner spent $350 to buy his first Nudie suit, one of the extravagant rhinestone-studded creations by the tailor Nudie Cohn. Wagoner’s was a peach-colored number with wagon wheels on it. He eventually owned 50 of them, for which he paid as much as $12,000 apiece.

Nudie Cohn: The Ukrainian refugee who created the image of country music

Saving Country Music
March 3, 2022
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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – It was 1913, and ethnic Jews living in the Ukraine region of the Russian Empire were regularly subjected to brutal, mob-like massacres, known as pogroms. Just two years after a young boy named Nuta Kotlyarenko (Нута Котляренко) was born in Kyiv on December 15th, 1902, one such notorious pogram ensued on […]