Jam Master Jay Quotes

Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

I want to wear school uniforms. I want to do something like the movie 'Our Times.'

As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.

My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

It has always been very important to look carefully at young people and the way they wear clothes.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.

Teenagers are more willing to experiment, and they'll find a way to wear something if they like it.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.

You don't have a choice about fashion or aesthetics - you're in it, whether you like it or not.

I'm not going to change my entire wardrobe just because of what people have said.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

I remember, before I started high school, I was really intrigued by the Buddy Holly/James Dean style of glasses. This was a long, long time before they were sold at every Urban Outfitters.

I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.