Ferrell’s fashion mistakes

Will Ferrell has no sense of how to dress himself, said Camilla Long in The Sunday Times (U.K.). The actor turned up for a recent interview wearing flared Adidas sweatpants and garish sneakers, a patterned bomber jacket that looked as if it came off the rack at the Salvation Army, and a pair of cheap sunglasses. His atrocious outfits are not, he insists, part of his comic persona; he just puts little thought into what he throws on. “I don’t say, ‘I’m going to wear the blue shoes that go with my jeans and that shirt,’” says Ferrell, 46. “I just grab what’s next.” He’s had a neurotic aversion to fashion since he was a child, when he’d go clothes shopping with his divorced father and they’d spend all afternoon searching for bargains. Ferrell found the process agonizing. “Money was tight. Dad was trying to teach me to be thrifty, and the little kid in me was like, ‘Can’t we just buy something?’” His father was particularly cheap about buying shoes; now Ferrell can’t throw away any of the free footwear he’s given, and has an entire wall of shoes at home. When the wall gets full, he leaves shoes in hotel rooms as gifts for other guests. “And the hotel calls, and says, ‘You left your shoes.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I did it on purpose.’”

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