Matriarch of the “Nudie Suit”

She was the original Rhinestone Cowgirl—a lady who believed “it is always better to be looked over, than to be overlooked.” And she held onto that motto to the end on April 7, 2006. Her obituary in The New York Times, announcing the death of “the purveyor of glitter,” was a showstopper: There she was, at 92, in a floor-length beaded skirt, a bandanna around her neck, a rifle in one hand and her walker at the ready. One look at that picture and you just had to know more about the wom