I played dress up especially with jewelry but more often I dressed up my Cat. I had a very accommodating cat. Does that count?

I'm like LaPed (no surprise to me) - I spent all my time outdoors in boys' clothes. I didn't play dress up with fashion / fancy things. But I did have a lot of interest in historical costumes. I sewed a lot for myself and for my doll that was basically a homegrown version of the American Girl dolls. My favorite creation for myself was a Little House on the Prairie calico dress and matching sunbonnet (pale pink - so I guess I did wear pink!) . I pulled my brothers and cousins into long elaborate make believe games that were very historically accurate - cooking food over a fire in the backyard, that sort of thing. I also did a lot of American Revolution make believe and had put together a whole (boy's) outfit for that. For that one, I remember forcing my brothers to run a toy printing press making flyers for the revolution. No joke. My brothers now say they had a great time with all of this, which is reassuring.

Strangely, now that I live in a city where costuming is everyone's favorite hobby, I have no interest or energy for it. But plenty of interest in women's clothes. Who knew?

What a great thread. Although I didn't dress up as a kid I find that it's so much more fun now dressing up and playing pretend. I'm doing that with my daughter we just stand in front of a mirror and dress-up and when I say dress up I mean we'll do you like cowboy hats or costumes or jeans jacket something different things so it's not just fairy tales and princesses but it's kind of like badass going on here. Is there such an innocent to watching a child Explorer and that makes it more fun for me.

Yesssss, it was my favorite playtime when young child! We had a big box under the piano full of colorful stylish clothes inherited from a very stylish but several years older cousin living abroad and just couldn't wait to grow in them, I always wanted to wear them asap- so sometimes they ended up hacked or fixed up for my size before the time--- oh-great memories, those were the great times:-)

Yes! We always had a dress-up box with old costumes and clothes from my mom. We had some ponchos that were great skirts! I was also an aspiring costume designer and would draw outfits, especially historical styles, constantly. That would still be my dream job.