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The museum also features many of Elvis’ most iconic stage wear – including that Black Leather suit, the American Eagle jumpsuit, and many, many more.

It’s on display at the new Elvis: The Entertainer Career Museum, the world’s largest and most comprehensive Elvis museum, at our new entertainment complex, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. If you’d like to see this eye-catching suit for yourself, you’re in luck. At that show, he wore the jacket and necktie, but opted for dark pants.īesides wearing it on stage, the suit is also featured on album covers. After returning from service, he wore parts of it once more, at the benefit concert for the U.S.S. The glittery gold suit was put into storage while Elvis served in the U.S. Louis, Missouri, on March 29, and in Toronto, Canada, on April 2.

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He only wore the full gold suit for three performances: in Chicago on March 28, in St.

Nudie’s suits are famous for their intricate embroidery and rhinestones, and his client list included Hank Williams, Porter Wagoner, John Lennon, John Wayne, Cher and many more.Įlvis’ gold lamé suit included the jacket, pants, shoes, necktie and belt, and it cost $2,500.Įlvis first wore the suit in late February or March 1957 for a photo shoot, and then wore it on stage for the first time in Chicago on March 28, 1957, and continued to wear the suit throughout 1957.Įlvis often substituted black pants for the gold pants. Tom Parker, commissioned famed tailor Nudie Cohn, to create a sparkling suit for Elvis to wear on stage. But more on that in a bit.Įlvis’ manager, Col. That gold lamé suit turns 60 years old this year, but it looks as brilliant as ever – and it has a new home at Graceland’s new entertainment complex, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. Just think – you can easily name so many of his iconic outfits: the American Eagle jumpsuit from “Aloha from Hawaii,” the black leather suit from the ’68 Special, and, of course, his gold lamé suit. This collection definitely has a sexy streak, as seen in the stretch leather biker shorts and a version of the jacket-and-panties outfit that has become a thing on the runway, the red carpet, and now even the street.Elvis wore some stunning stagewear during his career. For the office, there’s an excellent shirt dress with discreet shaping through the waist, and for evening there’s a gorgeous gold lamé dress smocked from neckline to the mid-thighs, then fluid to the ankles, that has to be the most sensual yet easiest look of the resort season. That’s why subtlety like Petrov’s works at this moment. The tide is definitely turning, but minimalism’s recent converts aren’t ready to give up the finer things entirely.

Chalk that up to global warming, to the ridiculous Y2K trend, to the fact that we’re living through a new gilded age of gross inequality, to whatever. Add to Favorites Stretch gold lame headband, 1920s Flapper style, 5 inch tall Peacock feathers & aurora borealis rhinestone front trim, Deco inspired (1.6k) 28.00. The uptick in interest in logo-less fashion stems in part from an increasing sense that excess is outré. Gold Lame Flapper Hair Wrap Flapper Hair Scarf 20s Head Wrap Gold Head Wrap Gold Hair Scarf Hair Scarf Flapper Gold Rockabilly Headband (1.4k) 32.00. This season’s hero suit, a jacket, waistcoat, and long skirt combo, comes in a striking burnt orange shade and its jacket is collarless. He manages the timeless/timely divide with assurance. He flies further under the radar than many designers, living and working in Vienna, and opting for off-season lookbook reveals rather than fashion-week runway shows, but his is a name to know. Petar Petrov is a proponent of just such sartorial understatement.

Though the recent men’s collections told us that logos are alive and well (hello, Louis Vuitton), there’s a growing awareness about the rise of anonymous, unbranded clothes.