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Dolly Parton’s flamboyant, fun style: ‘I’m not a fashion icon; I’m an eyesore’
With her gaudy rhinestones and ever mushrooming hair, the country star pioneered a new vision of femininity Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 Dolly Parton – a life in pictures Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out Share your tributes and memories of Dolly Parton Dolly Parton ’s voluminous hair and rhinestone-festooned outfits were so essential to her fame that her quips about her appearance have become almost as well-known as her lyrics. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” is perhaps her most memorable quotation, and is typical of the self-depreciating wit she employed to talk about her appearance. Continue reading...
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With her gaudy rhinestones and ever mushrooming hair, the country star pioneered a new vision of femininity Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 Dolly Parton – a life in pictures Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out Share your tributes and memories of Dolly Parton Dolly Parton ’s voluminous hair and rhinestone-festooned outfits were so essential to her fame that her quips about her appearance have become almost as well-known as her lyrics. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” is perhaps her most memorable quotation, and is typical of the self-depreciating wit she employed to talk about her appearance. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Dolly Parton’s flamboyant, fun style: ‘I’m not a fashion icon; I’m an eyesore’, With her gaudy rhinestones and ever mushrooming hair, the country star pioneered a new vision of femininity Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 Dolly Parton – a life in pictures Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out Share your tributes and memories of Dolly Parton Dolly Parton ’s voluminous hair and rhinestone-festooned outfits were so essential to her fame that her quips about her appearance have become almost as well-known as her lyrics. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” is perhaps her most memorable quotation, and is typical of the self-depreciating wit she employed to talk about her appearance. Continue reading…
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