“When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.” WantPlayGamesFunGrowing UpNiceGrowingReadyStressDressesConstantPastimeDressing Up Author:Lauren Conrad
“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.” WorldWayWellsArtFormCultureGrowsGrowing UpStyleGrewGrew UpDressesHip HopHipsHops Author:LeCrae
“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.” ThinkingMeanLittlesPlayRunningKidsBitsSidesGrowing UpGrowingLittle BitDressesGirlyBarbieKids Growing Up Author:Adrianne Palicki
“I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.” FoundBoysGrowing UpGrowingEmotionalDressesEveningPrimariesSensitiveHeelsMumHigh HeelsCaregivers Author:Tom Hardy
“When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.” PeoplePowerfulGrowing UpGrowingRocksDressesPunkPunk RockReally PowerfulUnassumingPowerful MusicTheatrics Author:Doug Martsch
“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenTurnsGrowsParentDarkGrowing UpColorDrugMessagesDressesSuicideMajorityAlcoholCommitEtcDrugs And AlcoholDark Colors Author:Bernie Siegel
“When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came home from school, I showed my mother a picture and said "Momma, that's you in the rocking chair. There's daddy over there." I said, "Momma, one of these days, I'm gonna be big and strong. I'm gonna be a football player. I'm gonna be a boxer. I'm gonna buy you a beautiful house and I'm gonna buy you pretty dresses." That's all I want to do in life.” WantYearsSaidHomeBigsSchoolBeautifulMotherHouseStrongSidesGrowing UpGrowingPlayerFootballProjectsDressesSouthNineThese DaysChairsChicagoDaddyGhettoBoxersFootball PlayerNine YearsMommaRocking Chairs Author:Mr. T
“Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.” TryingPlayWholeFunProcessCreativeGrowing UpGrowingStyleNew YorkPicksDressesStanleyStylistAmazing Relationship Author:Lea Michele
“When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.” BeautifulYoungChurchAttentionBoysGrowing UpGrowingClothesMy FamilyDressesShoesPassionateHatsSundayCoatsDressingsGlovesCarolinaAccessoriesNorth CarolinaHandbagsMeticulousDurhamChurch Service Author:Andre Leon Talley
“Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.” HandsWantedArtistBlackGrowing UpGrowingPoetMusicianDecidedDressesJazzClubsSmokeCigaretteNotebookMicrophonesBohemianBeatnikTurtlenecksCool Jazz Author:Charles de Lint
“What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.” WayHumansChildrenWholeFactsSpiritualGrowsProcessMoralEnemyGrowing UpHumilityDependsClothesDressesAgreeCharityNakedClothingsFabricInadequateHuman SocietyIncompetentRagsPitiful Author:Ursula K. Le Guin