To think Dressing your kids identical a bit tacky?

[Joannearobbo]

My friend has a 12 year old and 2 twin boys (not identical) who are 9 and every day dresses them exactly the same.
Everything is the same..tops/socks/jackets etc
I think it's a bit naff...but each to their own I guess.
What do you think?

I can't say I care what other parents do with their DC for the most part but the warm weather is making me groucey. Dressing twins the same is fine but dressing siblings whom are not actual twins the same is very strange imo. My ndn dresses her 6 yo twins and their 10 year old sister the same.

I have two boys and always said I wouldn’t dress them the same. But the ease of looking for them in the same top is very appealing!
Also the older one always wants his brother to wear the same so it’s difficult.
If they are wearing the same I tend to keep it to same t-shirts or shirt but nothing else, all matchy matchy is a bit cringy I think!

We have four, and they almost always coordinate if not match. Mind you, it is getting trickier with the two-year-old’s insistence on determining her own clothes for the morning.

We store clothes in sets of four outfits, so it’s easy to just pull out a bag and know that everyone has something to wear for the day. Bags are labelled according to what they contain, and stored only once they have four full outfits in them (so if an outfit has been taken from one bag to replace an outfit that has been dirtied midway through the day, the bag stays out until that outfit is back in it again). We have some matching outfits (usually the same print but different colour ways) but mostly we coordinate rather than match.

Mine are still little though - twins who will be two this month and twins who are three. It seems a bit daft to do this with older children unless they want to; at the moment, three of mine are perfectly happy to let me choose what they wear in the morning (and the other one tried to wear a 3-6 months snowsuit the other day, so she doesn’t get much say in what she wears in order to leave the house!).

I’m pregnant at the moment and if I have another ds I would look forward to dressing them (on some occasions) the same I think it’s cute.
But an upper age limit of 6 maybe 7. I wouldn’t insist on it if they refused younger than that.

meet I think your situation is slightly different if you have 2 set of twins!
Sounds like you are extremely organised, I have one set of twins and never manage to co ordinate their outfits...

I dressed my twins identically, as they loved it and still dress the same now to confuse me and the others! but only sometimes, and made sure that while I could, I made them dress differently for school- we had different hair bobble colours for each! I only dressed the whole clan the same for photos or special occasions.

I didn't notice an old thread, sorry