"The clothes that really excite me when I see them hanging on the rack are really over-the-top, arabesque, frilly, fancy, and shiny things," Palmer said. "In that way, I don't think I've evolved past my 7-year-old self. I also have luckily been developing a taste for more understated, vintage stylish stuff. Especially from the 1930s and 1940s."

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