To hope "twinning" is not a real life thing?

[Whitecup]

Having a nosey on Instagram and came across a very lovely account where the mum dresses her DC in matching outfits (I.e the same out fit as the mother). It all looks very sweet sat here from afar but is it really transferable in real life? Would you feel like a total prat walking round Tesco in an identical outfit to your 5 year old? Apparently "twinning is winning" prehaps in instaworld it is. I'm thinking that maybe I should try it out? Would it make me and my DCs happy? Would people stop to tell me how wonderful it is to see real life Von Trapps and thus spread the joy to the people of Northen England on a grey day?
Seriously, does anyone really do this or know someone that does? It's very much brightened my day to be honest so I'm not been mean spirited.

Whilst I'm on it does anyone know anyone who really stands in woodland wearing a variety of "outfits of the day" or shares a candid picture of a cup of tea in bed? I do love instagram it just makes me feel so dull

[SemiNormal]

I don't do it on purpose but there has been several occasions where my son and I both wear similar green parka at the same time as well as wearing matching Converse. Or we'll both be wearing jeans and similar coloured striped top or both wearing our black faux leather style bomber jackets. We don't have many clothes that are similar though so doesn't happen often at all. I think it's just because he's only 6 so I buy all his clothes and my taste in clothes obviously reflects what I buy the both of us. We're never dressed so similarly that it's caused comment though but I think the fact we're different genders helps - if I had a daughter and we were both wearing green parkas, jeans and converse it would be more noticable I think.

[CuppaSarah]

Sometimes, on a rare slightly manic day. I will dress myself and DD in coordinating outfits. Like I wear my blue dress with white polka dots and she wears her white dress with blue polkadots.

Thats as far as we go here.

[FriedPisces]

I've done it by accident once. DH bought me a dress for Christmas (Lindy Bop) and I had bought the same dress for DD (then 8yo). She thought it was fun but we only wore the dresses around the house. I'd be far too embarrassed to wear them out and about. (She's outgrown hers now thankfully)

I cannot stand siblings dressed identically, I have a friend who does it with her sons and I cringe every time. IABU in my passionate hatred though, i realise that.

[TinfoilHattie]

It's not bitchy! Bitchy would be writing, for example, "Did you see Mrs Celeb on the telly last night, what was she wearing, she looked a right state in her jeans and her daughter was no better".

This is a thread about a dressing trend which some people like, some don't.

[letsmargaritatime]

I am sorry Whitecup but i find this a really bitchy thread

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[GnatsChuff]

WhiteCup awful isn't it. Several of us have tried over the years to gently dissuade her from it. But she will not have it, which I don't understand as she is otherwise intelligent and lovely. She insists that they are her children and it will be her decision when they are allowed to start dressing differently.

Fine, buy them both the same stuff if you must, but don't insist they both wear it at the same time. She doesn't do hand-me-downs either. When one grows out of things, she buys new for both.

[Clandestino]

I have two t-shirts which are identical with DD but that's it. Normally don't wear them at the same time anyway. Just weird.

[Aftershock15]

In the 60/70s my mum used to make herself a summer dress and then a dress for me and a shirt for my brother all in the same fabric. We didn't match all the time, but there are some photos of us all matching. Might have been more to do with economically cutting the fabric but I think we (my brother and I ) liked to match sometimes.

Once travelling on holiday dh and the boys realised they were all matching by chance (light cords and red tops). Not all identical style but close enough to look like it was a conscious choice, rather than each picking their comfortable trousers and random top. Wasn't helped by the fact that once they noticed they all linked up and walked about the airport singing ' hi ho hi ho it's off to work we go'.

[Floweringjasmine]

GnatsChuff

I have a friend who insists on dressing her non-twin sons identically. They are now 11 and 9. They are never allowed to choose their own clothes and get sent back to their rooms to change if they dress differently. She thinks it's cute. I think it's fucked up. (Particularly for the older one who is about to go to secondary, is going to get bullied mercilessly if it gets out at school that mummy still chooses his clothes for him. He also has all sorts of hang ups about food. Not convinced they aren't unrelated)

It is odd enough to dress kids the same but to dress a child as a mini-adult or an adult as an overgrown child is really weird

I know a women just like this too. Is she an air hostess?

[viques]

Daffodils07
Me too, but being the younger sister I then had the joy of wearing the same clothes again a couple of years later when my older sister had grown out of hers and I had grown into them. I suppose on reflection I am lucky I didn't have a younger sister too, since I would then have been twinned up with her, me in the big sisters castoffs and her in mine, and she imaginary thing would have had two lots of the same outfit to wear out!

[SomethingBorrowed]

Are you allowed to do twinning if your DC are twins though??
Mine are boy/girl so onviously different clothes but once every other week or so I match their outfits just for fun, for ex denim dress and red scarf / jeans and red shirt.
I intend to stop when they are old enough to choose their own clothes though, they are only 3.

I also have a pair of Converse and a matching child pair, which DD and DS take turns in wearing (and they love it)

[GnatsChuff]

Flowering there must be more than one out there as she has never been an air hostess, no.

[HairsprayBabe]

Me and my mum have very similar taste in clothes, I have twice in the last year I turned up to go shopping with her in the same outfit! Total coincidence...

Not jeans and a striped top but floral dresses and other obvious patterns! We even have the same shoes!

I am sure we look quite mad but I don't really care, I love being so close to my mum

I am 25 and she is 52 other than the clothes we look very different.

[BestZebbie]

I'm a bit sad that I can't get some of the clothes my son wears for myself, but not to match him, just because I'd really like eg: an appliqued diplodocus hoodie. We do have one jumper the same (but in different colours) and my DH will not go out in public with us if we are both wearing them at the same time. :-)

I do stand in woods wearing a variety of outfits, but that is because of LARP rather than Instagram. :-)

[AwaywiththePixies27]

Whilst I'm on it does anyone know anyone who really stands in woodland wearing a variety of "outfits of the day"

I end up in woodland on a regular basis. My outfit of the day tends to be. Dress. Leggings. Jacket and Wellies.

I find the twinning trend really creepy, let your child have their own identity. Who cares if the child chose a top ans trousers that dont match. Or if Johnny wants to do the school run in his batman cape. Let them. They've got plenty of time to worry about their outfits when they're a grown up, and even then they shouldn't have to.

[HairsprayBabe]

I also like to buy matching things with my sister even as an adult - especially pajamas, I realise this probably makes me very strange

[Bearfrills]

DD1 (5yo) has an 'interesting' style with a penchant for hats, tutus, brightly coloured tights and glittery shite. Yesterday's after school outfit was an ankle length pink paisley patterned gypsy-style skirt, grey slouchy jumper, sparkly trainers and a straw hat with cat ears. I'd look like a right tit copying that.

[AwaywiththePixies27]

Aftershock but that's just being economical. When you only have one piece of fabric to work with, three people to clothe ans no Primark around the corner.

I fondly remember a neighbour of ours when DD was a baby, she was an old Jamaican lady and she still did the dressmaking then, she'd made herself a dress and knocked on the door with a cute little outfit for DD as she had some spare material left over and wanted to use it up. I doubt the likes of Victoria Beckham and Beyonce are twinning because they're on a similar budget though.

[liverpoolsfun]

I used to be desperate to be dressed in the same clothes as my big sister. And I wanted her to dress like me not the other way round. It never happened though as I was five and she was 17.

[Blimey01]

Omg do people actually do it and think it's sweet ?!?!
I don't even like it when kids are dressed in the same outfit let alone a parent as well. I thought it was a joke!

[CesareBorgiasUnicornMask]

I keep accidentally buying the same clothes as my mother. I find it horrifying .

DS gets very excited at the moment if he realises he's accidentally dressed like DH or I. He has a checked shirt that's similar to one of DH's, and a stripy breton top that's like one of mine - it literally makes his day and he walks round pointing out that we're the same to everyone. But he's 2, and we don't do it deliberately. I'd definitely buy matching Christmas jumpers or something at the moment if he wanted, because I think he'd love it, but I fully appreciate we'd look like nobs. I'd never force it on him and I imagine he's not going to want to dress like either of us for much longer!

[Blimey01]

Thinking about it my dh and ds have the same coat. I just thought it was funny ( mil bought coat)

[User48627]

I quite often find myself dressed in a similar outfit to my child.

Yes, sometimes I dress like a two year old boy, that's how much style I lack!

[MysweetAudrina]

Nope, my dd (9) will only wear boys clothes out of the boys section. Not a dress, skirt or pink item in her wardrobe. She would be more likely to twin with her Dad than me. I don't even bother buying her and her brother separate clothes now as they just wear each others all the time.