Dolly Parton’s Probably Shouldn't Tell You This Story | CMT

– It was just too thick to be on a shoe. It was too thick to be on a girl. My name is Dolly Parton, and I probably shouldn’t tell you this. Years ago, when I was working with The Porter Wagoner Show, I didn’t have enough money to actually pay for really fine clothes or expensive clothes. And I had a lady that did my clothes. She made this beautiful outfit. The dress was made out of a thick, shiny– I don’t know if you call it brocé. Anyway, it was thick, and I think there were red flowers.

We decided that we should have my shoes covered to match that. And these were store-bought shoes, of course, those real pointed toes. Well, she had glued all this fabric around to match the dress that I was wearing. The next night when I was on stage, I put the shoes on. I thought they were pretty hard to get on anyway because they were tight. There was so much fabric in them. I was singing The Coat of Many Colors. You know, it’s a sad little song. And I was really into it. And I was standing at the

microphone, and I just looked down, and I saw that I had my shoes on the wrong feet. And those points were just sticking straight out. I looked down,

and that’s what I saw. (LAUGHING) It was like they were going, you know, the opposite way. And I was in the middle of the song, which I was trying to make everybody else cry with this song, and I started laughing. The audience started laughing because I was laughing. And of course, I had to tell them what the story was. I said, “You kind of have to be here

to see what I’m seeing.” So after the show was over, of course, we all had a big laugh about that. And then I told the girl that had made the clothes– I told her what had happened on stage. And I said, “I couldn’t tell. I could not feel.” I said, “They were just so thick, and I wasn’t looking at that. I was just trying to make sure I got the shoe on.” And she said, “Why are you blaming me? I didn’t tell you to put them on the wrong foot.”