FAMED TAILOR'S WIDOW LOVED FLASHY SUITS.Byline: Lisa M. Sodders Staff writer Bobbie Nudie
v. em·broi·dered, em·broi·der·ing, em·broi·ders v.tr. 1. To ornament with needlework: embroider a pillow cover. 2. and rhinestone-studded suits clothed clothe tr.v. clothed or clad , cloth·ing, clothes 1. To put clothes on; dress. 2. To provide clothes for. 3. To cover as if with clothing. country music and western movie star for decades, has died at age 92. From Nudie's Rodeo Tailors of North Hollywood, Nudie Cohn Nudie Cohn (December 15 1902 – May 9 1984) was a Ukrainian-American tailor, known for designing rhinestone-covered, and other elaborate outfits, to be worn by celebrities. and Bobbie produced "Nudie suits" worn by stars from Roy Rogers to Robert Redford. "She was everybody's sweetheart," said granddaughter Jamie Mendoza, 44. "She was the woman behind the man, that stood by him and she ran the store." After her husband's death at age 81 in 1984, Bobbie kept on running the North Hollywood shop. She finally closed it in 1994, when she was 81. Bobbie died Friday in Valencia. Born Helen Kruger on July 29, 1913, in Mankato, Minn., she met her future husband in 1933 when he came to stay at the boarding house her parents ran. Cohn was born Nuta Kotlyarenko in Kiev, Russia, in 1902. He got his distinctive American name in 1913 through a misunderstanding by an Ellis Island immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. clerk. A tailor's apprentice, he also played mandolin mandolin (măn'dəlĭn`, măn`dəlĭn'), musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. , ran a shoeshine stand outside the Palace Theatre in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , worked as an exhibition boxer named "Battling Nudie" and traveled to Hollywood to become a film cutter. He thought Helen's name didn't fit her sparkling personality and called her "Bobbie Nudie," even though her legal name remained Helen Cohn. Married in 1933, the couple moved to Manhattan to open "Nudie's for the Ladies For the Ladies is a extended play by Machine Gun Fellatio. The extended play was released in 2002. Track listing
After returning to Minnesota and having a daughter, Barbara "Nudie" Cohn in 1939, they moved to Hollywood to manufacture sportswear and western wear. Cohn decided he could create showier costumes for western stars. He moved to the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. to take custom orders out of his home, cutting suits on a ping-pong table in his garage.. In 1947, the couple opened a shop at Victory and Vineland in North Hollywood and started creating suits that sparkled with rhinestones. In 1963, the shop moved to Lankershim Boulevard. "She loved them," Mendoza said of the suits. "The fact that they had such flair to them and they sparkled so much. Elvis Presley's $10,000 gold lame suit from 1957? Classic Nudie. Robert Redford's "The Electric Horseman" lighted shirt? Another Nudie creation. Other famous customers - many of whom became personal friends - included John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Robert Mitchum, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., Cher, Johnny Cash, Gene Autry, John Lennon, David Lee Roth, George Harrison, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger. At Nudie Cohn's 1984 funeral, Dale Evans gave the eulogy. Daughter Barbara died in 1990 at age 52. Helen "Bobbie Nudie" Cohn will be interred next to her husband in the Courts of Remembrance at Forest Lawn in Hollywood Hills. Services, which will be held at Forest Lawn, are pending. Bobbie's survivors include granddaughters Jamie Nudie Mendoza and Morelia Cuevas; great-grandchildren Desiree, Yvette and Marc Anthony; sister Edith Macho; and nephew Craig Pedersen. lisa.sodders@dailynews.com (818) 713-3663 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Bobbie Nudie, widow of famous Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn, celebrates her 92nd birthday. She died Friday in Valencia. |
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