 He was born with a webbed left foot, and his left arm had been permanently injured in childhood which left it shorter than his right and lacking in flexibility, which was probably the result of being hit, at the age of 12, by a horse-drawn carriage.During his youth, Stalin cultivated a scruffy appearance in rejection of middle-class aesthetic values.He grew his hair long and often wore a beard; for clothing, he often wore a traditional Georgian "chokha" or a red satin shirt with a grey coat and red fedora.