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AIBU regarding kids clothes...

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Shelby2010 · 30/04/2014 10:55

Help! I think I've been taken over by aliens, I was browsing the children's clothes at the shops yesterday and had the overwhelming urge to buy matching outfits for my DDs (ages 3yrs & 6mths). The only mitigation I have is that the tops were very pretty and at least they weren't pink.

Am IBU and am I going to turn into Maria Von Trapp & start converting curtains? If my DH finds out he will probably disown me. Advice needed.

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meditrina · 30/04/2014 10:57

Tell DH to change his name to Howard, change yours to Hilda and embrace your urges Grin

SarcyMare · 30/04/2014 11:03

keep this secret very very secret

SecretNutellaFix · 30/04/2014 11:10

I worked with someone who had 6 sisters and there was an age spread of about twelve years.

There is photographic evidence of all seven girls with their hair in the same style, all wearing the same style dress and ankle socks and t-bar sandals.

It was terrifying.

IdkickJilliansAss · 30/04/2014 11:13

I did it when my girls were tiny but think co ordinating outfits look better

imip · 30/04/2014 11:13

My 4 dds aged bw 7 and 2 do have one matching outfit, actually really nice, sent by dm.

When first two were born, there were a couple of matching things, dd3 and 4 now where them.

EMBRACE YOUR INNER MARIA Smile

EverythingsDozy · 30/04/2014 11:14

A friend of mine will only buy her DDs (8 and 4) clothes if she can buy them in the two different sizes. If she can only buy one girl the outfit, she won't buy it. It drives me crazy! I know it shouldn't bother me, it's up to her what she does with her children but it really does!

imip · 30/04/2014 11:14

Wear them, not where them...

Ps, they all have different haristyles. I have a general theory that daughter's hairstyles tend to be the same as their mothers!

Vintagejazz · 30/04/2014 11:15

Could you get a matching one for yourself as well? You would all look just dinky setting off for the park together.

Fenton · 30/04/2014 11:15

I think the only time I dressed my sons the same was for my wedding day. One was 3 years old the other 3 months.

I was seriously cute.

Nocomet · 30/04/2014 11:16

I don't see the harm, occasionally. DDs had matching holiday outfits when 4&7 and summer dresses where one had pink and one purple. They liked obviously being sisters, for a change.

They don't look alike, so, although it makes for sweet pictures they don't look too cutesy.

notthegirlnextdoor · 30/04/2014 11:16

My DDs 5&3 are always asking to be "matches" and love wearing the same/similar outfits.

Yes I am one of those mothers

5madthings · 30/04/2014 11:17

My mum used to do this to me and my sister, I hated it and so have never done it with my four boys.

Yours are prob too little to care now though.

Thurlow · 30/04/2014 11:18

I have a general theory that daughter's hairstyles tend to be the same as their mothers!

OMG Blush I have almost exactly the same hairstyle as my toddler Blush Blush

In my defence, we have exactly the same thin hair that looks terrible any longer than a bob, and the same round face that needs a fringe, but still...

Oh, god. I'll just dress her in the same clothes as me now...

OP, I think you should go for it. But go for it properly: same clothes, same hairstyle, same shoes, and definitely matching you in same way too.

twojumpingbeans · 30/04/2014 11:20

Erm - what's wrong with matching clothes? Have I missed something?

MiaowTheCat · 30/04/2014 11:20

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KuppiKahvia · 30/04/2014 11:24

My mil likes to buy my dd's matching outfits. They very rarely wear them at the same time though (once or twice for grandma perhaps)

I've been sorting out their summer clothes for my dd's this morning and dd2 has 3 outfits handed down from her big sister that she used to wear the matching outfit of as a toddler, knowing dd2 she will sigh "not this again" at me!

Do obsessive matchers not hand down clothes? Or do they just buy all the sizes?

5madthings · 30/04/2014 11:24

My mil buys my bous matching socks, it's a ducking nightmare with the laundry, you think you have a pair and then realise they are different sizes!

5madthings · 30/04/2014 11:25

And why is my auto correct changing fucking to ducking?!!

AlpacaLypse · 30/04/2014 11:27

Blush I had a bit of a 'thing' when the dtds were tiny of buying the same outfit for each but in different colours.

I was a mixture of very bored and very sleep deprived at the time.

AlpacaLypse · 30/04/2014 11:28

5madthings your autocorrect is afraid of offending people on buses Grin

Cakecrumbsinmybra · 30/04/2014 11:31

I think we have all succumbed to to this at least once, surely?

neffi · 30/04/2014 11:32

I occasionally have an urge to buy me (45) and DD (9) matching outfits. So far resisted...

2tired2bewitty · 30/04/2014 11:41

My mother used to dress my brother and I in matching outfits when travelling so that if she lost one of us she could say that she was looking for one like this Hmm

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Shelby2010 · 30/04/2014 11:42

Thank you for all the support, I'm feeling slightly less of a freak. Could only match hair styles if we all went skinhead as baby DD is a bit challenged in the follicle department. Although matching flower headbands might work... would have to staple it to the toddler's head though?

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EverythingsDozy · 30/04/2014 11:51

My DD does have a dress that matches her dolls dress. My grandma bought it as a gift for Christmas from BHS, I absolutely love it! Is this worse than matching siblings?! I can't tell!