The Truth About Dolly Parton’s Style

Dolly Parton was just 5-foot-nothing tall. She needed platform heels to make her feel that she could fill a performance space. Her husband, Carl Dean, once told her that from the audience, her platinum wigs made her tiny figure look like a Q-tip. But no amount of mocking could make her surrender the hair, heels, and rhinestones, which were her own brand of feminism under wraps. “Believe it or not, I had to fight for that look!” she wrote in her 2023 memoir, Behind the Seams. The look wasn’t…