Dolly Parton Doesn’t Wear Sweatpants (Even During the Pandemic) — Here’s What She Lounges In
Dolly Parton has always had a larger-than-life style. From a young age, the “Jolene” singer has been drawn to “gaudiness.” When the Queen of Country is relaxing at home, she sheds her wigs, lets her real hair down, and dresses comfortably. But that doesn’t mean she’d ever be caught dead in sweatpants.
Dolly Parton’s signature style
As soon as Parton had the resources, she started cultivating her own style. During her time on The Porter Wagoner Show, she discovered what she liked (wigs, sequins, and bright makeup).
“Porter and the boys were more into their western suits, but I didn’t want that look,” she wrote in her 2020 book, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. “I just wanted my stuff to be shiny, flashy, and colorful, and I still do. I feel like a butterfly when I am in all of my colors. I can’t get enough rhinestones, enough color, enough gaud, because it fits my personality.”
In an interview with Playboy Magazine in 1978, Parton said that she was well aware that her look is “outrageous.” That’s kind of the whole point.
“Can you imagine anybody wanting to look this way for real?” she asked, laughing. “When people first get to know me, they say, ‘Why do you wear all of this?’ Then, after a week of knowing me, they totally understand. They know it’s just a bunch of baloney. But why not? Life’s boring enough, it makes you try to spice it up. I guess I just throw on a little too much spice.”
Parton likes her style, even if it’s not everybody’s cup of tea. The “9 to 5” singer said if she was trying to look “sexy” or “beautiful,” she’d dress differently.
“I like the big hairdo, the gaudy clothes,” she said. “There’s not much sexy about that. Men are not usually turned on by artificial looks and I’ve always been like that.”
Dolly Parton doesn’t wear sweatpants.
Sweatpants might have been a wardrobe staple for many people this past year, but not for Dolly Parton.
“I don’t wear sweatpants,” she told The Wall Street Journal on May 31.
But she does “like to be comfortable like everybody else.”
“I have my own little house clothes, like a little dress-type teddy, a long teddy, then I have a little jacket or shirt to match if I get cold,” she said. “I call them my baby clothes because they’re soft like a baby. But I don’t wear sweat clothes.”
The ‘Rockin’ Years’ singer’s version of exercise
Parton doesn’t wear sweat clothes, but she does exercise.
“I create my own rejoicing exercises!” she said. “I grew up in the Pentecostal church where we used to do a lot of shouting and jumping around. I keep my motor running in the mornings when I just shout through the house praising the Lord.”
“But that’s the extent of my exercise,” she added. “I’m not big on going to the gym…and I’m particular about who I sweat with.”
Parton is actually in the midst of creating a workout routine for all, based on her “rejoicing exercises.”
“It gave me an idea to create some easy exercises, and I’m making music to go along with it,” she said. “Something that even people in wheelchairs or people that are older or sick can do. I thought I could create something joyful, where you were doing something for a reason rather than yourself.”
