The tailor's flamboyant style had a lasting impact on American country and western clothing. Decades after his death, granddaughter Jamie Nudie has reopened Nudie's Rodeo Tailors in California.
Indianapolis tailor Jerry Lee Atwood has a theory about why country musicians embraced flashy Western suits in the 1950s and ’60s. Grand Ole Opry singers such as Hank Snow, Webb Pierce and “Hillbilly ...