Friend buys the same clothes as me

[Chippychop]

I've know her 3 years, we've become really good friends but in the last two years or so she bought lots of the same 'staples' ive got...Patent leather boots, like mine, navy blue duvet coat wears them with a pink scarf, - like mine, I've just bought some leggings/ jeggings M&S best, she's gone and bought similar
I bought a new blazer, she's just announced she's going to get one. AIBU or paranoid? She's getting on my nerves.. I don't (deliberately) tell her when I buy new stuff but I can see her concentrating when I turn up with something new. She's a lovely friend and I'd hate to upset her but she's doing my head in.

Who cares? I mean seriously. Why does it matter what she wears?

It's not that exciting!
She basically latched on to everything I did and ended up moving 1 tube stop away from me which meant I had to avoid her every night while she patiently waited for me so that we could catch the tube home together across the whole of London.
I felt a bit guilty but she would talk endlessly and come up with the most bizarre comments.
The very first time I met her she said 'hi, I'm xxxx my boyfriend is skinny and wears tight Tshirts and sometimes he smells and I have to tell him to go and have a shower'.

How's that for a conversation killer?

totally annoying, and it doesn't stop unless you say anything or avoid her.

Three words; Single White Female. She'll change her hairstyle to match yours next.

Just tell her to be herself and find her own style. What suits you won't necessarily suit her.

Those sound like fairly generic clothes so unless she is buying the exact same items then I would just chill out about it.

I have unintentionally worn almost the same clothes as friends and we just found it funny. Me and 2 friends all have very similar burgundy/wine type coloured jeans, the other day the other two were both accidentally wearing those as well as very similar black ankle boots to each other... No one was copying, just that they are very standard clothes! If you were wearing something really unique I could understand you being bothered.

You need a convincing wig. And a henna tattoo.

You have great taste and she has no imagination...so I'd be flattered if I were you :) Why not suggest going clothes shopping together and steer her towards things that will flatter her but not match your wardrobe if it really bothers you? :) I actually can see why it would irk. We had a neighbour at one time who used to pop in from time to time, usually to ask my dad to do something around her house. When my mum went round to her house for some reason she saw it was almost exactly identical to ours. It freaked my mum out a bit! LOL

I have a friend who copies me - including when I cut off my long hair to a bob a couple of years ago, she did the same a week later. And now has it the same length as mine, including curling her naturally straight hair to make it look more like mine!

At university, she would turn up every week to lectures in an exact copy of what I wore the week before. Even people who didn't know us noticed it and she got v flustered and embarassed.

I drew the line when she asked me to go shopping with her and she was asking me where I got things from constantly.

We're still friendly, but live on different continents now, so less easy for her to copy me!