"Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, is not the only contestant on the new season of “Dancing With the Stars” with a special kind of celebrity wattage."
Spicer has the dullest of "wattages", barely visible from a broken and tawdry light fixture. He humiliated himself repeatedly at the WH press podium and thanks to his lies and puffery is a political paria.
This is a ridiculously sloppy and gratuitous opening sentence to what turns out to be a fairly interesting accounting of the fashion and style of those three beautiful groundbreaking women, The Supremes.
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Um, what about LaBelle, from whom the Supremes stole at least one set of outfits? While the Supremes gradually became the forefront, they were not the only ones.
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When the Supremes burst on the scene in 1964 (after years of hard work as the "No-Hit Supremes") they became instant icons of style, sophistication and musicality in a way that included everyone of every race, creed, color and orientation who loved them and their music. Mary, Florence, Cindy and Diana were utterly, absolutely electrifying in performance, whether on television or live. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas may have been more soulful and the Marvellettes funkier but the Supremes were and are the sine qua non of joyful pop music.
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They looked so smooth and in control, and sounded like the world was their oyster. That was all that mattered to me when I was eight or nine.
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Dame Wilson you are a national treasure. Thank you.
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Mary Wilson collaborated with Blair-Murrah, Inc. to organize and travel a collection of her gowns and accessories in the exhibition "The Mary Wilson Supremes Collection" in 2011. The exhibition was shown in several venues across the country including the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS.
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As a young city kid, I didn't see skin color. Either you were beautiful and or nice or your weren't. The first time I saw The Supremes I thought they were that three most beautiful women in the world. When they smiled and sang, l fell in love. I'm still under their spell.
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There has never been a pop/soul/R&B group anything like the Supremes and there probably never will be. These women were original, authentic, and the talent just flowed from them. It helped that each of them were beautiful. Lots has been written and discussed about Diana Ross and how she may have overshadowed the talents of the other women. But if the group had changed its format, it's just as possible that they would have had a couple of hits and faded like so many groups of the era. Thank you Diana, Mary, Flo and Cindy. And of course, Mr. Gordy!
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@tlm Reluctantly to Mr. Gordy.
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From the very first moment I heard one of their songs, (When the Love Light Starts Shining Through His Eyes) I fell in love with the Supremes. However being a very young man (17 at the time), I never noticed their clothes, only the beautiful women wearing them, singing their hearts out, giving me chills.
Thank you ladies from the bottom of my heart.
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Mary Wilson: an icon of music and glamour in her youth and again in her 70s. She is an outstanding example of what can be accomplished and overcome with talent, grit and determination at any age. I hope her turn on DWTS will produce another album for her fans. She's really good in live performance and always meets her fans after the show to sign autographs and take photos. More than a few of today's pop icons could learn a thing or two or five from Mary Wilson about being a star - a REAL star.
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