In his autobiography Brown acknowledges that he first obtained the idea of wearing robes on stage when watching Gorgeous George in a wrestling match on T.V. in 1957. ...When he got through killing whoever he was killing he started walking around the ring taking his bows. A handler followed him and threw a robe over his shoulders. George shook it off, went to another side of the ring and took another bow. The fella threw the robe over him again...watching it, I said, 'We got to get a robe.' So we went out and got some store bought robes. Later on, we got capes that I designed and had tailormade...