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Dressing my boys the same

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tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 12/12/2010 21:57

I really like it! Boys 10months and just 3. Anyone else do this?? Can anyone recommend any good clothing brands?

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jellybeans · 12/12/2010 22:00

I did it with my girls (2 and a half years apart) and with my twin boys on occasion although with them I liked same but different colours. they also wore different on many days but I loved buying them the same coats etc. Brands they wore were M&Co, Next and anything really..tesco, matalan, verbaudet, M&S not fussy!

thisisyesterday · 12/12/2010 22:02

ok, i will admit to it!

i know it's totally frowned upon on here, but on special occasions my 3 have been known to wear identical outfits

they look so cute! and the last time we did it i asked ds1 (age 5) if he wanted the same or different and he chose for them all to have the same :)

TheNextMrsClaus · 12/12/2010 22:02

So you don't hand down stuff from the older to the younger, then?

You must have more money than I did.

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thisisyesterday · 12/12/2010 22:11

is this where we have to apologise for being able to afford another set of clothes?

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tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 12/12/2010 22:11

No I do but I love dressing them the same if I can. Often find the same things on ebay in different sizes.
Baby boden now goes up to 4 so thats good. Also toby tiger and next have wide size ranges.

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thisisyesterday · 12/12/2010 22:12

boots are good, they go up to age 5-6

monsoon, but that's expensive

VeeBee3 · 12/12/2010 22:15

I do it sometimes but usually for special occassions DS are 4 and 2. Had them Christened in the summer and they wore identical outfits (except shoes). They looked so cute in their shirts and waistcoats.

Other than that i tend to pass the clothes down from DS1 to DS2, although not sure how long i'll be able to keep it up as DS2 is catching his big brother up in size!

Brands they wear are anything tesco, asda, next, debenhams. Possible more next but thats just because DS1 is very slim with long legs and i like their adjustable waistbands.

LadyBiscuit · 12/12/2010 22:15

God I hated it when my mum did it to me and my younger sister (similar sort of age gap to OP'a kids)

Sorry - I think it's really horrid for the older child (unless they're happy to wear it obviously)

Clary · 12/12/2010 22:18

I think it is so odd.

Why do people do this? I don't dress the same as my siblings. Why would I?

I guess if the DC are OK with it then maybe

I know someone who does it with an 8yo and a 5yo

edam · 12/12/2010 22:18

When I was little, I really liked wearing the same clothes as my sister. But it only happened on rare occasions. If that had been the usual regime, I'd probably have been quite irritated.

TheNextMrsClaus · 12/12/2010 22:42

Thisisyesterday - I just can't imagine not handing stuff down, that's all. I'm hardly on the breadline, but I would have felt it utterly profligate not saving clothes from the older child to hand down to the younger.

I suppose we all choose to spend our money on different things.

SantasKnickersOnMyHead · 12/12/2010 22:43

Would love to...but I have a boy and girl.

SnowMuchToBits · 12/12/2010 22:46

I think it's particularly bad when people do this with twins. I am a twin, and hated it when I had to wear the same as my sister. It was bad enough that most people didn't bother to tell the difference between us, but made it even harder if we were wearing the same stuff.

BikeRunSki · 12/12/2010 22:50

Goodness, I though my mum was the only matching-outfits nutter in the world. It never worked:

Me: Chunky and blonde
DSis: Willowy and olivey

There is not a single style or colour in the world that suits us both.

thisisyesterday · 12/12/2010 22:51

well i do hand stuff down. but on some occasions i also dress them the same.

and it's not like the clothes never get used again. i sell them on ebay, or pass them on to other people... it isn't like they just get lobbed in the bin

SantasNutellaFairy · 12/12/2010 23:02

I don't like to see it personally. Especially if the children suit different colours/ styles.

I have a former colleague who was the second in a line of 7 girls born in a ten year period. She showed me photos of all of them at several points all wearing the same dress. Was very disturbing.

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tryingtobemarypoppins2 · 12/12/2010 23:08

So you don't think DH should join in too then??

Shame quite liked the idea......

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SnowMuchToBits · 12/12/2010 23:15

SantasNutellaFairy - sounds a bit "Sound of Music"

SantasNutellaFairy · 12/12/2010 23:20

it was quite disturbing.

The only difference was the toddler's frock was so short you could see the knickers and the eldest's was just below her knees. All same style and same fabric and all the girls had the same haircut (page boy bob)

Teela · 12/12/2010 23:28

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Simbacatlives · 12/12/2010 23:33

Last week in joules mother was buying matching outfit for 2 girls- one about 3 and the other about 9. The older one was begging to be different but the mother was insisting that it was so cute that they looked the same. I felt very sorry for the eldest girl.

Worse is the mothers and young (10 year old) daughters who wear the same- big trend here.

thisisyesterday · 12/12/2010 23:38

maybe it's worse for girls? i dunno

as i say, my eldest loves it. they have quite a lot of clothes the same because if i see something i love i can't decide which one to buy it for.
they don't always wear the same thing at the same time though

sims2fan · 13/12/2010 04:29

Well, my mum used to put my brother and I in matching outfits! (I'm a girl, by the way). In her defence she says that in the eighties children's clothes were much more unisex anyway so we often wore outfits such as red shorts and stripy t - shirts. She also knitted us a lot of jumpers/cardigans and quite often they would be very similar, just slightly different in style. I don't remember being bothered about it, and looking back over old pictures we did look very cute! She also said she did it for safety reasons on days out - so that if one of us got lost she could show people the clothes to be looking out for. That never actually happened but I think it was quite logical.

Sullwah · 13/12/2010 10:06

sims2fan - But from a safety viewpoint they should always have different coats.

I have twins and I always make sure they have different coloured coats / jumpers etc. If they are running around outside, it is so easy to clock a blue coat in several places and assume you have both boys when in fact you have lost one!

Also - if they are running out into the road you can be yell out the correct name!

But on the OP - sorry, I think this is weird. We have been places when my DTs were the only set of siblings not wearing the same clothes!

I think it is very cultural. The French / Italians / Spanish love this look. I think we Brits are less comfortable with it.

BlueberryPancake · 13/12/2010 10:38

I love to dress them the same for special occasions - but it's very rare. I buy most of their clothes at Matalan, and they have the same clothes lines for boys aged 1 to 4. My two boys have 18 months gap so it's easier to find matching stuff. I just bought them the same pyjama and they insist on wearing them the same night and then they swap beds (they share a bedroom). They think it's hilarious.

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