Fashion Coming of Age

[kitsch_k]

What age did u start getting interested in fashion and having a say in what you wear??

[irish_clover]

when I was about 12

[kitsch_k]

hmm i think i started wearing brand names at 13?! hehe it helps if you have an older sister..you catch up on fashion earlier

[carebear]

I didn't until I got a job at the age of 16. Then I could go out and buy what I could afford which wasn't much. Even to this day I buy from the sales racks.

[etali]

I was 14 or 15 when I found my style - I started experimenting a couple of years before then, but to be honest I looked like an idiot. I still can't afford the kinds of clothes that I like, but I have a few really special pieces that I hold in reserve for special occasions.

[kitsch_k]

i remember my mom used to forbid me to wear black when iwas around 13..so right now im soooooo obssessed with black and white..hahaa..weird!

[britjojo]

I was about 12 when I started to choose what I wore, but my mother still bought everything. I only got to choose what was bought when the shopping was done with my own money. And as I got older and things got tighter, I even had to buy my own winter coat and shoes and so on because my family couldn't afford it. So then I had complete control...

[kitsch_k]

well i remember having a l ot of hand-me-downs from my older sister

[xaphania]

I think I was about 12 or 13 when I started to really want to choose my own clothes and not what my Mum liked.

Sometimes I look back at photo's of when I was younger and cringe at the clothes my parents dressed me in!

[kitsch_k]

hahah my parents used to make me wear dresses all the time!! everytime i had the chance id change into capris or jeans!!!

[Fizz]

I suppose I'm pretty close to normal. I believe I was in between 12-14. The older I got the more interested in fashion I got.

[kitsch_k]

Originally Posted by Fizz

I suppose I'm pretty close to normal. I believe I was in between 12-14. The older I got the more interested in fashion I got.

well true true...the older i get the more crazy i get about fashion..the deeper i get in fashion debt!! hAHA

[Fizz]

So much to buy, so little money to spend. Such a tragedy, haha!

[kitsch_k]

Originally Posted by Fizz

So much to buy, so little money to spend. Such a tragedy, haha!

haha so true!!! too many talented designers out there...and why oh why do we have such great expensive taste. haha

[Fizz]

I hear you Kitsch, I always know when something is really expensive because it's always the first item I go to. It never fails and of course I can't afford these goodies.

[PrettyinPink]

I think I was born caring about fashion. My mom says that I used to insist on picking out my own outfit to go to preschool and that I would only wear dresses. She wanted to dress me in those awful OshKosh overalls--thank god I had more fashion sense than her back then!

[Fizz]

I think my daughter is like that PrettyinPink. We went to the beach over the weekend and she totally cracked me up when we dropped by the store to pick up some sun block. She saw a pair of flip flops and said "I need those, they match my suit!", it was such an instinctivly girl thing to say.

[PrettyinPink]

Sounds like you have a future fashionista on your hands, Fizz!

[kitsch_k]

Originally Posted by Fizz

I think my daughter is like that PrettyinPink. We went to the beach over the weekend and she totally cracked me up when we dropped by the store to pick up some sun block. She saw a pair of flip flops and said "I need those, they match my suit!", it was such an instinctivly girl thing to say.

she's matching her clothes now?!?! oooohh nooo!! here's one budding fashionista! hehe. soo cute!

[Fizz]

Yes, but I have to teach her to think it and not say it to her Dad. He pointed out that buying something because it matches isn't going to happen. It's all a matter of wording with him. hehe