Zooey Deschanel had limited teenage wardrobe

OHMYGOSSIP — Zooey Deschanel has confessed that she developed her quirky style because her parents wouldn’t let her buy lots of clothes and so she altered what she already had.

Zooey Deschanel’s mum would only buy her clothes twice a year. 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.”