To dress siblings the same?

[RickWhittington]

Really important post. Vital. Life depends on it. I know, my choice and all but tacky as hell or unbelievably cute?

There are 38 months between my DDs and the younger one usually had the elder's hand-me-downs so matching was rare unless a relative bought them matching t-shirts. PILs organised a trip to Florida with their DSs and families and my DDs ended up in matching t-shirts and shorts on several days by choice. We returned to Florida as a household in 2019 and in their teens they chose to buy matching clothes.

Yeah matching is cute as long as they are happy with it.

Wouldn’t say it’s tacky, just totally bizarre. Children are different beings, no?!
That being said, at the request of my stepdaughter age 7 she has a matching Christmas jumper to my baby son, her brother. Her choice. They wore different bottoms with it.
However I do enjoy when families dress in a similar vibe/ colour palette for special photos. We’ve done that before.

My SIL used to dress her identical twins in identical clothes, even as babies if one was sick on their babygro they both got changed. Then she wondered why she was so tired. I, on the other hand, struggled to find matching socks for anyone.
I think my girls would have had fun occasionally wearing matching clothes but if it ever happened, it was coincidental I think.
It can be cute for Christmas day or something, but otherwise I think you're stifling individuality.

My DC (boy 7 girl 4) love and demand matchy christmas jumpers!!

There’s nothing cute about children who wear matching clothes and even worse when parents try to match with them 🤣
im a twin and from a very young age we refused to dress the same, we may be twins but we’re individuals!!

My mum used to do this to my sisters and I and even at a young age I really resented it.

No! I hated it when my nieces (3 years apart) were dressed identically.
My DTSs had the same basics eg, jeans, dungarees, joggers but tops would be different colours (at the very least) and as they got older (age 4 or 5) and dressed independently there would be more differences than similarities.

Oh it's so sweet at Christmas!

I occasionally see a pair of identical twins in town in their 70/80s ish (women)
identical hair, clothes ,bags I feel kinda sad that they have no individuality or separate identity

Matching jumpers would be cute and each child can wear what they want with it.

Fully matching outfits older than toddlers or boys/girls matching and coordinated across the sexes to have an offspring aesthetic isn't cute to me.

It's not the matching item of clothing that I dislike. It's the curating offspring as a accessory for the parents that I find off.

My DDs are 8 and 10 and both love to dress the same, even though 90% of the time they're tearing pieces out of each other

Eldest dd is wearing a dress. Youngest dd has a strop because she wants to wear the same dress. I'm going through the wardrobe trying to find something she'll accept, when eldest dd rushes off to her own wardrobe and triumphantly comes back with another copy of her dress, which is one size too big for her (sale shopping, got carried away). Youngest dd insists that she must wear this dress, which on her is 3 sizes too big. Whilst baggy due to the style it does stay on/isn't trailing on the floor so that's how they go out.
TLDR: it's not always the parents pushing the matching outfits!

I think it's cute. My nieces love it and they are 8 and 7.

Well, THAT'S just adorable. And understandable. So cute!

As a general principle, I'm anti-matching outfits; however, my four year old loves matching with either her little sister OR me in some way, so I guess it's a proceed with caution? I think kids should be able to choose what they want to wear, and if that happens to be matchy like the twins from The Shining then so be it, I guess.

Cute occasionally when they’re little. A waste of time, effort and clothes if it’s every single day (as some people I know did, therefore never handed clothes on).

Funnily enough tonight I’ve seen a pair of twins in their 50s or 60s wearing the same thing…. Definitely not a good look!!!

I have two DDs who are two years apart. Occasionally if shopping they will both be drawn to the same clothes, and so I will buy them both the same, and oldest DD does love it when they dress the same. She will sometimes beg her sister to put on the same/similar clothes as her 😄 but 99% of the time they wear different stuff. They only have a few matching things, mainly PJ's, and formal wear for weddings etc, and they do look cute when they're in the same outfit, but I'd never force it, or even encourage it. They're 9 and 7, and mostly pick out what they're wearing each day. I think it's important for them to be their own person, and to develop their own styles and preferences.

18 months between by DDs and I regularly dressed them the same. Probably stopped when oldest was 4. They look back at photos and think they look cute. My mother dressed me and sisters the same. Never bothered me, it was just normal.

Actually I think it’s very bad, I see Mrs hinch doing it and I think it’s very wrong. Children are individuals. Not one unit, not toys. They are individuals in their own right. They can look cute individually.

They all get matching Christmas pyjamas as well, their choice.

Cute when they’re babies but not when they’re old enough to talk IMO

I loved wearing matching clothes to my sisters as a child up to around the age of 8. After that I started to want to wear my own thing. I think it’s cute and absolutely fine as long as the kids are happy and on board with it. If the kids aren’t keen though I don’t think they should be forced into wearing the same.

Although it is more important that is Die Hard a Christmas movie, please don't ask it unless you want your children to disown you

If it’s trad smocking type thing - possibly cute but knock it off at 4 (tops)

Fucking he'll lighten up.

I dress my children in vaguely matching clothes; same style of trousers in differing colours, same t shirts but different colours, exactly the same coats, similar jumpers etc because it's really hard to find clothes I like for them, doubly hard to find two sets of completely different clothes.

Plus, it's cute,