Jack A. Weil: Where All The Cowboys Have Gone
The oldest CEO in the world Jack A. Weil, inventor of the snap button cowboy shirt has died at age 107.
AP reports:
Weil’s shirts have been worn in movies by Elvis Presley, Clark Gable (in his last film, “The Misfits”) and Heath Ledger (“Brokeback Mountain.”) Bob Dylan, John Fogerty and Eric Clapton also have sported the shirts.
The price of a shirt has gone from about $2 in the 1940s to $60 and up today, mostly because the Weils kept manufacturing operations in the United States.
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