Elvis Broke Fashion Boundaries, Too
He was many things, as a new biopic illustrates, but one of the least appreciated was his role as a gender pioneer.
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Elvis Presley backstage at “The Milton Berle Show” in Burbank, Calif., June 1956.
Elvis Presley backstage at “The Milton Berle Show” in Burbank, Calif., June 1956.Credit...Earl Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images
By Guy Trebay
Everybody has a personal Elvis. He is there for us all, lodged in the collective unconscious, one of few humans who can legitimately be termed an icon, although it is not always certain of what.
There is musical Elvis and race-reckoning Elvis and sex symbol Elvis and Las Vegas Elvis and Mississippi Elvis and rockabilly Elvis and Hollywood Elvis and Warhol Elvis and imperial Elvis and impersonator Elvis. There is, too, cautionary Elvis: the bloated, pill-addicted burnout dead at 42.
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