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With her gaudy rhinestones and ever mushrooming hair, the country star pioneered a new vision of femininity
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Dolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
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Parton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside out
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.