Zooey Deschanel's mum would only buy her clothes twice a year, so that meant she had to alter her clothing.
The 'New Girl' star claims her kooky fashion comes from having to be creative with a needle and thread from an early age, because her parents wouldn't allow her to have too large a wardrobe.
She explained: "My parents wouldn't let my buy clothes willy-nilly. We'd get new clothes maybe twice a year, just practical things, so I started making them myself.
"I would sort of fit things on myself and then sew them together. I remember taking fabric my mom had used to make a Christmas stocking, but I made a red dress out of it, with white eyelet trim, for a friend's birthday party."
Style icon Zooey, 34, also likes the way she is seen as an example of how to look good dressing in a "modest" way.
She told Glamour magazine: "Whatever you put me in, I still look like myself. If someone wants to look good and is a little more modest, they can see some examples of how to do that in what I wear."
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