IndiaAIFounders — Dolly Parton’s flamboyant, fun style: ‘I’m not a fashion icon; I’m an eyesore’

Dolly Parton’s flamboyant, fun style: ‘I’m not a fashion icon; I’m an eyesore’

August 26, 2026 at 07:00 AM

With her gaudy rhinestones and ever mushrooming hair, the country star pioneered a new vision of femininity

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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.

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