How old were you when you first decided your mom just didn’t know how to dress you or the first time you put up a fight because it was just not happening?
I think I was almost eight and my dadi got all the cousins this hideous chiffon kapra with gota squares in orange. I hated the sight of it and when my mom got that stitched so we could wear it for my Phupho’s wedding.. I threw a hissy fit, cried the whole night because I hated being seen in it and after that I was more vocal about my clothes.
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I think I was also about 7/8 the first time I was vocal about my clothing. It was also for a wedding. The cousins were all going to wear these atrocious pale green dresses with a puffy tulle bottom and my mum insisted that I wear something similar. Oh my word, I looked like a mint-flavoured marshmallow. 
I threw quite a fit and refused to wear the outfit. It reached the point that I even hid the dress and pretended that it was misplaced or left at the shop. lol. In the end, my mum ended up relenting and settled for a different dress in a similar shade. I think I began having more of an opinion about my clothes after that.
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Atleast you were smart enough to say no means NO!!! My mom gave me the kuchal doongi look and said tumhare to ache bhi phene ge. I was better off than my brother.. He was a child that was a complete fashion victim. Two words.. socks and sandal!!!!
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LOL!!!!!
Gosh I dont' remember when I started fighting with my mom...Wen I was a kid ti was very easy...my mom would dress me in those frilly tulle dresses (and I LOVED IT!!!!). but when I got around middle school/high school, the fights became more about American clothes (not to be revealing/wearing only baggy loose stuff). Don't remember any fights about desi stuff, sadly at that time the bigger issue was finding something ready-made that FIT so choices were severely limited.
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I’ve had sooo many fashion firsts. I stopped letting my mom dress me when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. She still bought my clothes (for a long, long time) but I wore them how I wanted to. She conveniently likes to remind me how I looked so well put together when I let her dress me 
Then around the same time I stopped letting her brush and style my hair because my hair were so tangly that it hurt every time the brush was run through them. I had real short hair until 13 when I straight up rebelled and said I want to grow my hair. Never looked back :roman:
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Umm, around 4-5 I think - very early on according to my mom. I’ve some very hideous pictures of me as very young with the worst fashion sense ever, my mom just shrugs and says you did that to yourself. 
Mom used to do my hair until I was almost 13, she’s amazing with hairstyles, so hideous dressing up but amazing hair I guess does define my childhood pictures. :hinna:
my mom could easily dress.me to this day.. infact she still buys most of my desi clothing. the woman's got style.
my dad on the other hand.... hideousssssss.... if its not big it doesnt matter. some of the dresses i had to wear... jesus. walkin talkin guldasta! my brothers started dressin emselves around the age of 14 i think... when they were old enough to go out shoppin by emselves. :d
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My mom had better fashion sense than we ever would so there was no challenging her.
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My dad is that way as well. My mum buys most of his clothes (and even puts together outfits for him). 
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I was around 12-13
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My dad doesn't have horrible taste.. He just buys the most frilly florally thing with all the jazz of frufru girly stuff.. even now when he picks out a dress for my girls.. I cringe.. and of course my girls love it and then put it back and tell him.. they have something like that!!!!
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My dad doesn't have horrible taste.. He just buys the most frilly florally thing with all the jazz of frufru girly stuff.. even now when he picks out a dress for my girls.. I cringe.. and of course my girls love it and then put it back and tell him.. they have something like that!!!!
My dad gets what I would like, more than my mom. Surprisingly. He's dabbled in accessories only ie guessing I'd like something when my mom buys 2 different things. My brother's got good taste though. He gives me fashion advice lol.
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I was 8 when I got to choose my first pair of jeans at the store! It was the best day ever :D
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Earliest that I can recall is my teenish years....around 14-16. I used to be a pretty chubby kid and lost the weight around 13. Came to the US for a visit and became more exposed to the fashion over here and wanted to wear the more fitted and shorter shirts. No skin exposing, but just more fitted cuz I felt more confident then about my looks. But the rebelling wasn't intense and was short-lived. My mom kept a close eye and I wasn't allowed to leave for school if my clothes were't appropriate. About a year or so later, I somehow gravitated more toward longer sleeves and clothes that were less form defining.
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9/10ish I think.. My mum was obsessed with trying to put me in little dresses when all I wanted was to run around in a pair of jeans :D
A couple of years later she decided showing legs was 'indecent' so did a completely 180 on that lol.. I remember thinking how weird it was..
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What I hated more was the fact my mom dressed my sister and I in the same outfits; dresses, shalwar kameez even panties.
When I was 8 or 9. One time we went to Pakistan for summer vacation and my mom bought this red/orange checkered khula kapra from some chaval at anarkai and after two shirts there was some kapra left over which my dad happily got a collar-less shirt sewn for himself from the same darzi, like who does that?!?!?! face-palm And a few weeks later our flight back to Riyadh; guess what all 3 of us were rocking that same print. I literally wanted to kill myself at the airport…oh the embarrassment!! I am still scarred from that trip…But after that I threw tantrums over anything and everything my mom remotely tried to pick for me, Its thanks to these similar incidents that I can hold it down now in the fashion department 