Johnny Cash’s Nudie Order, 1977

Via Hunter Oatman-Stanford’s piece on Nudie Cohn, the “rodeo tailor” whose garish, elaborately ornamented creations livened up the wardrobes of musicians from Roy Rogers to Gram Parsons:

Johnny cash called

wants

5 outfits for the band
instead of 4
2 Blk
1 Maroon
2 Blue

For him 8 outfits instead
of 6

add
1 plain blk one
1 plain with silver
thread on yokes, collar,
+ cuffs with silver buttons

*shirt tails long

Nudie said last year prices.

-Pete