Dolly Parton expertly shut down woman who tried to fashion shame her
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Your support makes all the difference.With her bleach blonde larger-than-life hair, long red nails and rhinestone-studded outfits, Dolly Parton is a style icon in a league of her own.
But in an interview from 1977 that has resurfaced, one journalist tried to call Parton out for her fashion choices.
Luckily, the country-singing legend had the perfect response.
After interviewer Barbara Walters asked Parton to stand up to show off her bright-turquoise outfit, she told the singer:
You don't have to look like this, you’re very beautiful, you don’t have to wear the blonde wigs, you don’t have to wear the extreme clothes, right?
And Parton said:
It’s certainly a choice, I don’t like to be like everybody else.
I’ve often made the statement: I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable, that’s the easiest thing in the world to do…
Show business is a money-making joke and I’ve always liked telling jokes.
Then Walters asked:
Do you feel like you're a joke, that people make fun of you?
And Parton replied:
Oh I know they make fun of me, but actually all these years people have thought the joke was on me, but it’s actually on the public.
I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing.
I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am.
So, I can afford to piddle around and do-diddle around with makeup and clothes and stuff because I am secure with myself.
People on Twitter were impressed by Parton’s graceful and self-assured response.
Nicely done Dolly.
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