• chumbalumber
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      6 months ago

      I think there’s some ‘truth’ to it in some ways. Dolly acknowledges that she plays a lot with femininity and feminine expectations, and that ‘look’ she has is a costume in many ways. She doesn’t dress like that when she’s out incognito.

      In the same way drag is a costumed examination of what makes someone look ‘like a woman’, subverting in some ways and embracing in others

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        Now I’m curious what she looks like with no makeup, would nobody recognize her?

        And oh my gosh isn’t she like 80 years old now?

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          I read that, thanks to the way she has dressed all these years, dressing regularly gives her anonymity and she can go anywhere without too much trouble or attention

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            what’s interesting is that we’ve only ever seen her dressed up and gorgeous so we just assume that she wakes up looking like that every day. Oh but what I meant to say was her look doesn’t seem entirely over the top, she just looks like a natural beauty, but I suppose if she didn’t put any effort in at all she would be unrecognizable and that is interesting.