# In your mind, is Daisy Duke blonde or brunette? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986 "2011-10-27T17:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/1 "2011-10-27T17:11:20Z")
When someone says Daisy Duke, do you immediately picture a brunette a la Catherine Bach, or a blonde a la Jessica Simpson? Feel free to debate which one is “right,” but I’m more interested in which one springs to mind more powerfully. (This is for a Halloween costume.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/2 "2011-10-27T17:21:51Z")
There is only one Daisy Duke, and she’s a brunette. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/3 "2011-10-27T17:22:40Z")
I was young when the show first came on so there is only one Daisy Duke and she is a brunette. I would be confused and angry if a blonde showed up and tried to convince me she was the real Daisy. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/4 "2011-10-27T17:23:45Z")
Weird simulpost **silenus** but you are correct once again. This shouldn’t even be a question. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/5 "2011-10-27T17:25:40Z")
When I hear “Daisy Duke” I think [Daisy Mae](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RqPjiKldZ4I/TirUK1uxmHI/AAAAAAAAESo/uZOIBk4t5bc/s1600/daisymae.jpg) EDITED TO ADD: I don’t have much of a TV habit, now or then. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/6 "2011-10-27T18:19:50Z")
Jessica Simpson isn’t Daisy Duke. ETA: This should be a public poll, so the people who think she is can be identified for re-education. ---
**Author:** ![antonio107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@antonio107](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antonio107)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/7 "2011-10-27T18:22:31Z")
She’s ginger! \<3 It’s my mind, I can do what I want! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/8 "2011-10-27T18:23:26Z")
Really depends on who’s going to be viewing the costume. Those not old enough to drink likely will only know the blonde and if they’re the majority… ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/9 "2011-10-27T18:27:58Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > When I hear “Daisy Duke” I think [Daisy Mae](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RqPjiKldZ4I/TirUK1uxmHI/AAAAAAAAESo/uZOIBk4t5bc/s1600/daisymae.jpg) > EDITED TO ADD: I don’t have much of a TV habit, now or then. Bah…I made the same mistake, and voted "blonde in the poll. Daisy Duke is not blonde. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/10 "2011-10-27T18:42:22Z")
Denim. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/11 "2011-10-27T18:53:29Z")
Definitely brunette. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/12 "2011-10-27T18:54:19Z")
In my mind Daisy Duke is legs ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/13 "2011-10-27T18:59:51Z")
Definitely brunette. And even if your costume is for a younger audience, did enough people even _see_ that movie to make much of an impact? More analogous to my own age group, to me Donna Douglas is Ellie Mae Clampett, not Erika Eleniak, even though \*The Beverly Hillbillies \*TV show premiered before I was born and the film came out when I was a young adult. One crappy movie does not an iconic character make. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/14 "2011-10-27T19:11:25Z")
In my mind she’s shaved. You don’t want any curlies poking out the sides. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/15 "2011-10-27T19:52:49Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > In my mind she’s shaved. You don’t want any curlies poking out the sides. Nah, she’s got that 70’s bush. And it’s all brunette, the way God intended. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/16 "2011-10-27T20:01:27Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > When I hear “Daisy Duke” I think [Daisy Mae](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RqPjiKldZ4I/TirUK1uxmHI/AAAAAAAAESo/uZOIBk4t5bc/s1600/daisymae.jpg) When I think of Daisy Mae, I think [brunette](http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=64014980474), because that’s who played her in my high school musical. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/17 "2011-10-27T20:19:07Z")
Brunette, of course. I couldn’t even understand the question until I remembered they made a bad movie adaptation a few years back, and even then I couldn’t remember which no-talent starlet they had cast. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/18 "2011-10-27T20:29:39Z")
Brunette. But as others have said it’s probably a matter of age. I never liked the show myself but it was on when I was in college and my roommate thought Catherine Bach was great so we had to watch it every week. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/19 "2011-10-28T01:46:15Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Really depends on who’s going to be viewing the costume. Those not old enough to drink likely will only know the blonde and if they’re the majority… You know, I think this is it. I’m 29, and I’ve never seen a single episode of “Dukes of Hazzard” nor did I see the recent movie. I’ve always somehow been aware that there was a late '70s/early '80s sex symbol named Daisy Duke, that she was noted for her short jean shorts, and that she was somehow associated with the South. But honestly, I’ve never had a strong mental image of this person. The marketing for the 2005 movie probably had a greater effect on my consciousness than the original TV show did, and thus when asked, I immediately pictured a blonde. The abovementioned “Daisy Mae” problem might have also had some effect. So I agree that people older than about 30 are probably imagining the “real” Daisy Duke from the 1979-1985 show, while people younger than about 30 might be more prone to imagine a vague amalgamation of Farrah Fawcett, Jessica Simpson, and Dolly Parton. In any case, the point is probably academic anyway for two reasons: 1. My costume is “Daisy Duke Nukem” and nobody’s going to buy a Duke Nukem who isn’t blond. 2. My SO is supplying the wig, and the wig is blonde. So my options are pretty limited there. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986/20 "2011-10-28T14:38:25Z")
Absolutely brunette. If you think she’s a blonde, you didn’t grow up in the '80s. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-mind-is-daisy-duke-blonde-or-brunette/600986.md?page=2)