It may be the most garish thing Robert Redford has ever worn - and now it's going to be immortalized.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City has installed Redford's suit from "The Electric Horseman" - a purple suit with gold-lame eagles, flowers on the lapels, and rhinestones aplenty - in its Western Performers Gallery.

"This tells the story, visually and otherwise, of the rhinestone cowboy/urban cowboy craze ... of the 1970s and ’80s,” Don Reeves, curator of cowboy collections, told entertainment columnist Brandy McDonnell at The Oklahoman.

The museum bought the suit in 2005, for $9,000, McDonnell reports. The museum spent another $5,000 for a special mannequin and display case.

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