to think it's twee when................

[50Wallabies]

you come across a family who dresses all their offspring in the same clothes?

Why o why?

It just looks a so contrived and playing for an audience.

These DCs are indivviduals aren't they?

Clones infact.

Oh god, you read my mind. Twee as anything

Whatever happened to individuality?

Plus a bit creepy

What, like this?

How could you call that twee?

I don't mind it actually. I've got one of each so not an issue, but I probably would do this on occasion if they were same sex.

Oh come on, they just got a bulk buy. They are just thrifty.

and weird, obviously

Mine like wearing the same thing sometimes

Not so bad if it's a couple of children, close in age, but we knew a family who did it and the 5 DC ranged from about 3 to about 15. They all had names beginning with the same letter as well

When I was a child my best friend was 2 hours older then me but born at 11pm and me a 1am.

We often insisted that our parents bought us the same clothes and wanted to match. Is that twee?

Or only when there are 3+ dcs with the same clothes?

Sometimes they're themed in the style of Sounbd Of Music.

That may be slightly more palatable.

My 13 year-old DD took her 10 year-old sister for her first unaccompanied (by an adult) shopping trip on Wednesday. They bought very nice identical shirts and wore them when we went out as a family on Thursday. I (who wouldn't have dared buy them matching clothes) worried all day that people would think I'd made them dress alike.

My God, it was us you saw.

My SIL used to dress her DS and DD identically when they went out for the purely practical reason that if one went astray she could point at the other and say 's/hes dressed like that' (fortunately the girl liked boy clothes!)

I sometimes do this with my 2 oldest - it's quite often about stemming arguments - ie I buy it for one and attempt something in a diff colour/style for the other and one is always put out. I am putting my foot down a bit more often now because I realised that quite often dd2 has the same outfit twice - once when I bought it and then again when she grows into her older sister's one,

I'm like GrimmaTheNome's SIL. Very handy if you're out and about but also looks cute and smart if you are at a wedding or something.
That's what I think anyway.

So there

I quite often dress the little two the same (usually different colours of same outfit) sometimes all 4 have the same style or character clothes on at the same time, it actually helps identify them in a crowd.

What if you have a boy and a girl!? I had a blue plaid shirt for both kids, similar not the same, and I put them in it. They looked a bit Amish though.

My DH and the two oldest children love dressing the same. [hhmm]

They actively seek out similar clothes.
Makes them happy.

I have had to buy anew winter coat this year after it was pointed out that dd's 2,3,4 an myself all matched in our red wool coats

I've got 4, and by dawg, it's so much easier to spot them in the forest if they have their red fleeces on.

Darn that DD3 who lost hers.

A day out on day release?

From porridge, obv.

i dress mine the same sometimes, i know some people consider it tacky but i find them cute matching and they are too young to object, so why not
i wouldn't do it every day or with loads of dc though as may come across weird but as its just for 2 boys close in age i think it can look nice

Makes me think of last week when I went swimming and saw an entire family (mum, dad and 3 dc) all wearing nautical type navy and white striped tops. They were paying just before me at reception. Then I got in the pool and they were all wearing, you guessed it, nautical type blue and white cossies. Apart from maybe the dad as his were not visible under the water.

I had my 2 dd's with me, dd2 was 12 weeks old and I had her in a nautical blue and white swimming costume, just by chance. I got a warm smile and a nod from the nautical mum as we floated past.

My mum used to do it with me and dsis on holiday so that if she lost one of us she could point and say she was looking for a bigger/smaller version of this one...