Clothing designer Nudie Cohn lit a fire in the country-music world with glittering suits and jackets with rhinestone-bejeweled pot leaves and gargantuan uppers and downers. His custom creations for Elvis, Gram Parsons, and Hank Williams are now legendary. In this episode of Behind the Seams, VICE's Adri Murguia visits the home of Jamie Nudie, the granddaughter of Nudie Cohn, who's keeping the family business alive.
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