It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
When I was really young, my mum used to make my clothes - I hated that. I liked the way boys dressed - I still do. I wanted to wear what they wore.
I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.
Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
I dressed like the guys who I grew up with. I looked like the guys I grew up with.
I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses - people recognize me now.
I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
My clothes don't make one a different person, just more of oneself.
I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.
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