He certainly wouldn't want to wear any of his clothes from the '80s-themed drama, which is set in rural Dutchess County, New York. The low-budget movie had an even lower budget for costumes ($500 for a prom scene), and most of the cash was spent on Clark Gregg, who plays Sebastian's cross-dressing stepfather. The coming-of-age story is hip enough, but it wouldn't befit Genier's image as a Hollywood up-and-comer to be seen around town in skin-tight powder blue sweatpants and a sleeveless T-shirt with a heavy metal band logo on it.

The clothes were slightly better in his follow-up project, Drive Me Crazy, but still not premiere chic. In that film, a mainstream comedy, he plays a brooding suburbanite who eventually lightens up thanks to the efforts of his next-door neighbor, Melissa Joan Hart. He got to keep his wardrobe as a parting gift and thought he was safe from clothing stores for another few years. But being in the limelight has its demands.

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In Williamsburg, Grenier (pronounced Gren-yeah) heads for the first place he always goes when he needs a new shirt. He bounds up the stairs to his second-floor apartment and starts rummaging through his roommate's closet. Said roommate, Damien Paris, a friend since ninth grade at New York's famous LaGuardia High School for music and arts, sees this as normal and critiques his choices.