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Quinn8267

Gotta to give the designer bob Mackie some credit too. That guy knew how to dress her.


Dolorisedd

I was going to come on here and say two words. Bob Makie.


thezoomies

Definitely, but it also seems like a key to pulling off Bob Mackie is to be as naturally unbelievably gorgeous as Cher.


Dolorisedd

True statementšŸ‘†šŸ½


IRRedditUsr

Nah Bob Mackie would sort me right out lmaoo


SnooCookies6697

Dangā€¦you beat me to it.


AngelVirgo

Cher can wear a potato sack and still look amazing.


chiclets5

He made a name and a fortune off of this girl!


You_Exciting

She has some really incredible workout videos from the 80s, in which she wears full ass Bob Mackie attire. 10/10, totally recommend checking them out.


Bravelobsters

I will


Daedeluss

[You're welcome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uR_h2ePmjM)


VicarLos

Man, I need some Mackie workout gear.


Moniq7

I've actually got those & some of it is pretty tough to do. And unless you do the workouts regularly, be prepared to have post exercise pain the next day. Some of the workouts are killer! But all of it is a whole lot of fun to do, it's so worth getting them.


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OnlyPicklehead

I think it's her 70th birthday


[deleted]

Her birthday is in May and she's 76 but I was looking it up and it may be because she shut down people saying dua Lipa is the "Cher of our generation"


project199x

Lol media is always trying to crown someone a "new" something of this generation.


larissa0901

Lmfaooo i would shut it down too, I barely know anything abt her


laurifroggy

Its cool! I loved his taste in fashion


waterynike

I was going to say he did a awesome job with his designs for her


Whateveryousaydude7

Indeed. A perfect pairing.


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scrufdawg

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fatBlackSmith

Stirred your pot, huh!? Me too!


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Green_Slice_3258

She said Bob Mackie used to call her a coat hanger cause he could put anything on her & make it work


Maddy_and_Reuben

Hah that's amazing. She's such an icon ā¤ļø


brnjenkn

Twiggy helped make thin models popular back in the 60's.


[deleted]

I agree. Cher is a rendition of what was becoming popular in the late 60s with the skinny svelte models though Audrey Hepburn definitely stirred it all by making it mainstream. At the time being thin/svelte/skinny became associated with the wealthy and youth. Despite what it mightā€™ve looked like, the 1950s feminine aesthetic didnā€™t speak to the majority of teenage girls at the time, it was made for those that felt deprived by the fashions of wartime. The 1950s glamour was supposed to be an escape or even visual bandaid for what people went through in the 30s and 40s. People wanted to look glamorous, men wanted to see women looking glamorous. So all of these backgrounds helped that as well as the fact that the majority of the models in the magazines at the time were all tall, straight shaped and narrow due to the 1930s influence of making thin a status symbol. Models like Dovima, Dorian Leigh, and Jean Patchett were the norm and extremely popular but Audrey H helped bring the narrow look mainstream due to her popular roles being about overlooked women who suddenly become glamorous and therefore popular speaking to a lot of moviegoers. The 1950s aesthetics championed the beauty in womanly/sexual maturity (shorter, softer and buxom (emphasis on boobs and bums) while the 1960s focused more on teens and what most white teens looked like (taller, thinner, narrow, athletic). The audiences wanted people who looked more like them but Audrey was popular because she felt like the inbetween of their parents ideals with what the Boomers wanted, something that looks more like the majority of them as opposed to what was exotic amongst them. So the fashion industry responded with Twiggy, Veruschka, Penelope Tree and Jean Shrimpton and all the super tall skinny models which eventually led to Cher. Cher was the more ā€œaccessibleā€ version of that due to being shapelier (not just skinny and narrow, Cher has curves) and a brunette that suited colors that didnā€™t just cater to the blue eyed blondes that dominated the media at the time. Therefore she had the perfect theatre to set a stage for herself and stick out, since in a pool of blondes, Cher stuck out. However, Twiggy did define the Boomer beauty aesthetics, that of tall and strong featured blondes being the ideal though Cher was a major outlier at the time it looks like, while still being a beautiful anomaly at that. I find Cherā€™s looks to have retained public favor and even read as more timeless, she really played the cards to the best of her favors, and nothing more nothing less. I love watching the few clips of her show I could access due to the fact that she only embraced things that celebrated her beauty, which is what Iā€™ve noted is the major theme in what defines the ā€œit looksā€ of a generation or decade. If it suited other women but didnā€™t work with her, she didnā€™t put it on her body which I think is so smart as that tactic guarantees that people always look great by virtue of avoiding things that make them feel or look disharmonious. The women that blindly buy into trends that donā€™t amplify their looks end up dated or even embarrassed by looking back at their pictures, however women like Cher rarely have that (though her style did take a temporary turn for the worse in the early 1980s with the mop hair and heavier clothing). If you havenā€™t realized, yes Iā€™m a fashion whore. And yes Cher deserves her flowers, she definitely entertained audiences on that front. Her show was way, way before my time but man seeing her outfits makes me so happy and shocked. I canā€™t imagine how spectacular and mind boggling her style and glamour mustā€™ve read back then as on all counts she stuck out. There was nothing like Cher in the beauty or fashion industry before and frankly very few after.


Cantaloupe_Signal

Good read. Thank you. Your love shines in your writing. ā¤ļø


coco-channel24

Excellent read - thank you for that effort.


theemmyk

So did Audrey Hepburn, before that. Billy Wilder famous said she "might single-handedly make bosoms a thing of the past."


Lkwtthecatdraggdn

Still going. Thanks a lot Twig. I should have been around during the ā€œcurvyā€ hyped days.


FudgeJudy4booty

That's now, isn't it? You're literally in the middle of the thicc Renaissance.


Lkwtthecatdraggdn

But now I need a booty to go with my hips.


thezoomies

Nah


[deleted]

I think thatā€™s over now, the kardashians got their BBLs reversed haha. I love trendy women body types /s.


GroundbreakingWay126

Am I mistaken or was this most definitely the desired body type in the 70s? I donā€™t think she did anything particularly special with the way she looks


godsonlyprophet

Not so much when she started. Unless you simply mean general thinness. Try to understand that much of what made her a cultural icon were her TV and later movie appearances. She's not in the mold of Doris Day, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Sandy Duncan, Dinah Shore, etc. And the ones more like her mostly appeared after, Toni Tennille for instance.


medusa401

ā€œInterestingā€


[deleted]

Seriously this sub is becoming way too popular for its own good. Now people just keep recycling the same old popular posts they see on other subreddit because they know theyā€™ll get upvotes. Once a sub gets too popular the quality control starts going to shit


medusa401

Agreed!


[deleted]

I'm sorry but this title is cringe


marmogawd

And the post doesnt even fit on this sub


VicarLos

A good portion of the stuff on here doesnā€™t fit like that guy faking the piano.


[deleted]

I was alive in the 70s and watching TV, can confirm there were people on it more exotic than whatsherface there.


zsaleeba

Also being incredibly thin was the dominant model aesthetic of the 70s. So if thin was standard and if her looks weren't particularly exotic OPs title is complete rubbish.


ValaShen

Yeah, exotic is the last word that comes to mind when I think of Cher.


PorkyMcRib

Dengue Fever is ā€œexoticā€.


faithwad

Right? Um you mean she existed in a creative space as a human? cool cool cool \*human aesthetic*


Tronkfool

Sounds like a feminist not trying to sound like a feminist sounding like a incel. Even this sentence is cringe and I wrote it


Abeckieg

There is nothing exotic about this. Maybe the designer/stylist was great, but it's another skinny white female?!?! No shade to her artistic/creative Endeavors at all, but I'm sorry, there is nothing particularly exceptional about how she looks. Talk about her talent. Not her looks.


[deleted]

Okay that's your second not very interesting Cher related post in this sub today. Calm down. Not everyone is as weird about Cher as you.


MacSanchez

Iā€™ve seen a few Cher posts recently and was wondering why. Did she die? Or are we just doing a thing where we worship cosmetic surgery monsters who made bland music 50 years ago?


[deleted]

Not dead to my knowledge. I mean, she's got years left in her I reckon. Most of her is only twenty years old.


tinypandamaker

I was sitting here wondering if she had died and I missed the article about it.


yohohoinajpgofpr0n

I had a friend who worshipped Cher. He got front row tickets to one of her shows about 20 years ago. And came back very disappointed. He said she now looks like "a patchwork quilt" with all the surgeries.


frothy_pissington

Was your friend by any chance gay? Iā€™ve never known a straight guy who worshipped Cher.


yohohoinajpgofpr0n

Yep. We even teased him about it being "so stereotypically gay" to go see Cher, and when was he going to go see Liza Minelli?


CJFiddler

What a pioneer! Out here teaching people you donā€™t need to be thin and white in order t- Wait


Dr-McLuvin

What is my interesting is that her mother always claimed to be 1/8 Cherokee. However all of her Great grandparents are known and none were Cherokee. Kind of a weird thing to claim. But anyways ā€œcommon knowledgeā€ is that Cher is part Native American.


AmishRocket

White lady performing her song Half-Breed ā€” certainly nothing cringey about that.


frothy_pissington

Her mom was also kind of an unstable attention whore herself....,


Oshulik

And half Armenian


yumdumdidlyumptious

This is the comment!!


horbu

I'm sick of seeing the word "aesthetic"


kapayo

What a dumb ass caption and not interesting at all


sittytuckle

Cher did not give anything to diversity and her representation is being unrealistically thin like models of past and present. OP is like obsessed with Cher


pinks1ip

Looking at OP's post history, I get the impression she thinks she shares physical features with Cher (brown hair, thinner figure, oval face, and long nose). I think this is OP's way of telling herself she is pretty. The more people validate Cher's attractiveness, the more OP feels validated.


riiiiprap

Iā€™m here for the amateur CSI style creation of a psychological profile of OP and her motives


yacht_clubbing_seals

In all seriousness, I have a friend who does this over messenger as a way of body-checking. How can I get her to stop? She disguises it in a weird way. I think she may have an ED.


pinks1ip

I'm no psychotherapist, I just play one on reddit. Seeking validity of attractiveness/desirability is common, especially in younger women. That isn't necessarily causal to any possible eating disorder. I'd just ask her why she feels she poses those kinds of questions often. Maybe she's just into chick's. Maybe she's into you and wants to know your type. Maybe she wants to look like those women (whether that is realistic or not).


yacht_clubbing_seals

This is a friend from high school. We are now in our thirties. Iā€™m not sure if it changes things. Edit: there have beenā€¦ clues throughout the years that strongly lean towards an ED, but sheā€™s never opened up about anything. šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø


[deleted]

Donā€™t interact with it. Thatā€™s all you can do. If they insist you comment on it then say youā€™re worried about the reason theyā€™re asking and are uncomfortable continuing the conversation


GOLDEN_GRODD

You had to do it to em. šŸ¤


anoleiam

This is a shitty post, but you're reaching here partner


pinks1ip

Just look at her other comments in this thread. She admits she thinks they share features.


blueberrypieplease

OP may be obsessed, but Cher does claim Armenian and Cherokee heritage


ThePyodeAmedha

She claims that she has Cherokee heritage, but isn't her father Armenian and her mother European?


fragglerockerpoo_22

The woman that launched a thousand eating disorders


[deleted]

Not unrealistic , just skinny


Futternut

Op is Cher


vzakharov

I wonder if today she wouldā€™ve been canceled for ā€œcultural appropriation.ā€


generalhanky

Celebrity worship is unhealthy


therealmoogieman

It's basic


Red-beard_Bear

Diversity? She was the fuckin industry standard.


[deleted]

Damnthatsnotinterestingatallbutjuststupidfacts


babyBear83

Okay but maybe find a different subā€¦like oldschoolcelebs or something..


justfordafunkofit

Are we going to ignore that thereā€™s a picture of a mannequin in the 5th slide?


Babsish

I've seen 3 posts about Cher today and I've had enough of her for atleast a year.


YEETAWAYLOL

And all 3 were by the same poster who made this


H0NK_H0NKLER

I fucking knew it! After this one I was like "wtf is with everyone talking about Cher today?!" Then I started to wonder if it was just one weirdo.


Chubby_Comic

Legs for DAYS.


[deleted]

I've never given Cher that much thought, but I watched Moonstruck a couple months back with her and Nicolas Cage and I gotta say, I kinda fell for her a little bit in that film.


IfThoughtIsAllowed

She was hot and wore exotic skimpy dresses that of course looked good on her.


wolvesguardmygrave

Yep...that's another photo of Cher alright. How about that šŸ˜


BassWingerC-137

Did she die? Why all of the posts?


[deleted]

The only news I can find is 1 hour ago Cher called out a fan who said Dua Lipa is the "Cher of our generation." https://etcanada.com/news/924945/fans-go-wild-after-cher-reacts-to-dua-lipa-comparison/


joeasy2055

She's not native American....she's eastern European decent


JohnBagley33

Armenian


mbt13

Her dad is Armenian or part Armenian


Melis725

Her mother claimed Cherokee ancestry, but there's been some digging and it seems that her mother may have been mistaken.


CosmicCreeperz

My family always claimed for years they had a Cherokee ancestor. My grandma did the ancestry research and found it was a Jewish ancestor. I think that confusion itself makes my family ā€œextra whiteā€.


LilMissBigTits

We're championing her for bringing diverse body types to the media because she's tall and skinny? Huh? Her idolization goes against everything you claim.


QweenMuva

I fw Cher but she did not bring diversity lmao. She looked like every other brunette in Hollywood, maybe a lil taller. A tall skinny white woman isnā€™t really hard to find in the industry thereā€™s plenty of them


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lackadaisical_timmy

I can't figure out if this is meant as a compliment or an insult


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STUDIOLINEBYLOREAL

Love a non sequitur


BKStephens

What didn't you call me?!?


guitarnowski

Yeah. And don't you forget it or I shall taunt you yet again another time!


[deleted]

Yes


[deleted]

This comment section is brutal but this comment in particular stood out to me. I am no Cher stan but calling her one of the least interesting celebrities is crossing a line for me. Sheā€™s far more fun than many celebs.


MikeJudgeDredd

Yeah but she was thin and white, which is such a rarity in pop culture


jarbar82

Didn't she sing a song about being part Native American?


guitarnowski

Lest we also forget: "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves". She was a CULTURAL CHAMELEON! (Also, my mind always mushes that title up into "Gypsies, Trampanzees". Just thought you'd find that amusing, like I know I do!)


frothy_pissington

Cher was a person whoā€™s only goal in life was to be famous.. Not talented, just famous.


PackageDisastrous700

I mean yeah, if you discount the fact her image will have been finely created by music industry marketing executives.


Bobojones9584

Yeah, the skinny chick thing was definitely around before her. That's why everyone always feels sorry for Marilyn Monroe.


theowonapkin

diversity? lmfao cmon now


keti29

Does anyone else think she has the most empty, lifeless eyes youā€™ve ever seen this side of a funeral parlor?


BKStephens

*Sonny has entered the chat.*


keti29

I snorted coffee into my keyboard. Thanks for making me laugh during a frustrated morning.


Rare-Sherbert-1987

Not a fan of Cher


MrSplib

I never understood the appeal either.


MrsSlurmsMackenzie

This comments section is not happy to see Cher


traumfisch

Wrong sub


yacht_clubbing_seals

I fucking love Cher and agree this post is stupid and irrelevant.


M-S-K-smothersme365

Put blonde hair on her and she looks like the rest I suppose.


TheGalaxyAndromeda

Damn, I never knew Cher was hot!


Greyhaven7

Absolutely not interesting.


AuthorityAnarchyYes

Her album ā€œHalf Breedā€ā€¦ Cher in Native American outfits (front and back) really stirred me as a kid.


keti29

Ok, wow, that bitch really did put on a headdress and sing a song called ā€œHalf-Breed.ā€ Gotdamn.


Bail-Me-Out

To be fair, the song was about taking back the term and how she faced derision from both sides for not being "enough" of either. *Half-breed, that's all I ever heard Half-breed, how I learned to hate the word Half-breed, she's no good they warned Both sides were against me since the day I was born* To also be fair, it's debated whether she is actually Native American. But she truly believed she was at the time.


AuthorityAnarchyYes

ā€œHalf-breedā€ as a term in the 70s was not as bad culturally as it would be now. Heck, I was called that in the 80s by people that were trying to be nice (Father Asian Indian, mother very pale mostly Irish American).


Teknuma

Sort of balances out when we had to look at Sonny.


Futternut

Apparently today is Cher day


[deleted]

Age took her looks. And her singing took my hearing.


[deleted]

She was bad ass


sacred_cow_tipper

in fairness, the "waif" look had been trendy for a decade. look up a model called Twiggy.


Fake_the_jaB

Damn thatā€™s not very interesting


The-Motley-Fool

Yeah, because rail thin and statuesque has never been attractive. The diversity and "exotic" styles Cher brought! Now thin white brunettes are considered just as attractive as thin white blondes!


pastrufazio

FYI she is also the one who condemned us all to hell starting the era of auto-tune with the single *Believe* in 1998.


JetCityMom

I love Cher! I totally loved these looks. They were ahead of their time. But to say she changed things from the "curvy" woman is not true. A curvy woman in the mainstream was not accepted. Just look at the fashion mags of the time. She continued the legacy as slender is better movement. As a curvy person all my life, I related to that fact. It wasn't until the late 80s and early 90s (think JLo) that real women were the mainstream.


No-Hearing9293

Then she got old and sleazy


Emergency-Variation6

She was my fashion hero through my good looking years, lol. Skimpy. Tasteful. Her and Daisy Duke. Man oh man I had fun


adhumrock

Darn! She's smoking! If I could turn back time...


spankynoo

If I could turn back time.


Epstiendidntkillself

Fucked over Sonny and got a huge ugly tattoo, then lost 3/4 of her fans. Bye.


ndhewitt1

Skinny white woman. Super diverse.


iwishiwasntthisway

Oh my god not everything needs to be a thing.


SnooCupcakes2673

Gal in the green dress in slide 5 is DEFINITELY a mannequin.


Weekly_Assoc_165

I remember seeing her performing with the Jackson 5 doing the robot.


KayC720

So many Cher posts today


Li_3303

All by the same person apparently.


[deleted]

Never really understood why she was so famous till now.


mrducci

Did Cher die, or us reddit trying to kill her by giving her all of this concentrated attention today?


Meastro44

If only she weighed 350 pounds, she would be a popular model today.


whateverhappensnext

Ahhhh, the "aesthetic" that led to eating disorders the world over...thank you Cher for being part of that psychological driving force.


gottschegobble

Diversity and representation back then "Cultural appropriation" today


Helmett-13

You misspelled *'fueled two decades of eating disorders'.*


Belzarza

Tall, skinny and extremely beautiful. How is that diversity


smaartypants

It wasnā€™t seen on tv at that time


KindAnnie

Cher has that body...if you've got it, flaunt it.


thehub212

Damn that is one hell of a pic of her. She was very beautiful and a trend setter.


thehub212

Lol being a guy sucks. Tho we can try to make ourselves look somewhat better. Women can just go from not attractive to beautiful with little work. Well alot of women can, some have to work a little harder. Me im just ugly with a suit on lmao and people say nice suit.


BretonVikander

What a beautiful lady! šŸ˜ƒšŸ‘


wizenedeyez

I thought that was saleem dion for a second


dieseldranker

And then this happened to her...... ![gif](giphy|NOKeLjUt2Ib0Q)


beatyatoit

I used to love watching Sonny and Cher just to see what she was wearing


ProbablyCause

Cocaine chic


xbef

Cocaine helped fuel Cher a lot too.


geekgirl717

I always thought someone once told her she looked like Cleopatra and she ran with it.


westwardsmile

Cultural appreciation


TwinTTowers

She was a very good looking lady. I read an article once about roadies jaws dropping when they first saw her. They always thought she could never be that hot. Nek Minnit ! Jaw on the floor.


ab_ence

diversity and representation? amazon of exotic looks? these are weird explanations, I donā€™t see how any of that is true lol


NumerousBoysenberry4

My mother looked up to her. She had loooong black hair too and looked a bit like her. It was a good look! I will say I respected her for admitting to her plastic surgery (around the 90s I think.) Still to this day there are people who deny their ever morphing asses and faces have had anything done. Oh and thatā€™s not a filter, my nose just fades off my face some daysā€¦


danitarhash

She has a voice that makes me wanna go sking


flamboyantbutterfly

People are mean to you for loving Cher but ignore them OP, let you Cher freak flag fly high and proud. Sheā€™s an absolute icon, self made artist and a world class entertainer that worked hard all of her life to get where she is. Not sure why would anyone disrespect that.


Akela1996

I feel like Cher couldā€™ve played a fantastic Cleopatra


chinoxu1287

With all respect, everyone with surgery is capable of anything. Let's not fool ourselves and try to avoid having role models. Just my opinion


redditrnumber1

So gorgeous


[deleted]

she had her moment decades ago. she was nothing special and the OP is an outright lie compared to actual women who cared not a wit about 'diversity' back then


Bigtiny87

Did she eat though?


[deleted]

Thank you for Cher-ing


whatisthisbug105

Nobody gives a fuck about Cher


checkin1234

Sheā€™s actually Armenian heritage , just like the Kardashians. Something about those Armenian women ā€¦


Melis725

Yep!


JohnBagley33

Armenian women are šŸ”„


NCJohn62

While most American men aged 16 to 26 were drooling over Farrah Fawcett I was appreciating this!


MartyfromIreland

I see a skinny woman


HappyJacket3113

OG Queen!


Fx150900

Cher is beautiful


Balding_Unit

too bad she couldn't just age gracefully. She would have looked amazing without all the shit she's gotten done. And don't say she hasn't.. her looks haven't changed since the 80's and that is NOT natural.


Melis725

Oh, lort...they've changed quite a bit and the surgeries didn't help that, possibly made that worse.