do you dress your kids the same?

Im sure this has been discussed before, but I was wondering if anyone else dresses their twins the same? I have dressed my girls in matching or coordinating outfits every single day since they were born. Is this weird? :huh: Also, for those of you who do, when do you plan to stop (if you do)? I was thinking I will probably start doing it only on special occasions, but I love it!! They always look so cute! Just curious...

Edited: because I wasnt making sense

 

ALL of our clothes are either the same (though not as much anymore) or the same item in a different color. We're doing a lot of shorts (in different colors) with different but similar tshirts. Even their shoes are the same style, just different colors. It makes it easier for me to keep track of them at the park and at playgroups!

 

Mine still get dressed alike and they turned 3 the end of October. They look cute, they ask for the same outfits (they are the exact same, not coordinating). If one gets dirty, we do not change both (usually).....if we dress them differently, they look back and forth at each other and say "this isn't right!"

I don't know when it will stop.....but I am sure it will at some point.


Mine are frats if that makes a difference.

 

We have a lot of coordinating outfits but I have never dressed them in matching outfits. My mother buys matching stuff sometimes but I don't like it when my girls match so I never put them on at the same time. I know matching is cute, but it's just not me. I do like coordinating clothes (same style shirt in different colors, both in jeans and sweaters, etc) because it means they're in the same weight clothes, but now that they like to express their individuality a bit, they usually ask to wear things that are polar opposites.

Today Piper picked out tan chinos and a red turtleneck onsie (but she didn't want the onsie part buttoned so it's hanging down in the front and back). Cricket is wearing a hand painted flowey cotton tunic dress in apricots and light greens that a friend brought back from Africa with matching striped leggings. So I guess for us here, the coordinating stuff is still possible, but it's getting harder to convince them to wear similar clothes since their styles are so different.

 

I have to say yes and no! Most of the time I do dress them alike. However, as they are growing I notice I am drawn to different outfits for each girl. Just recently I bought Amelia a pair of watermelon (pink) pajamas and I got Lily a pair that are nothing like Amelia's; I got Lily yellow flip-flop pajamas. The older they get the more often I see clothes that remind me of one girl or the other. Even though they are identical their personalities are so different! Same thing with swim suits - I did not buy my girls coordinating or matching swim suits this year.

 

Mine are ALWAYS coordinating or matching. I think I may need therapy . I have very few matching outfits, but I will buy matching if I can't find a coordinating shirt/shorts/outfit & really like the shirt/shorts/outfit. I can think of maybe 4 items I put in their drawers for summer that are 100% matching. However, I think because they've coordinated so long, I cringe when they don't! Today Aiden blew out his diaper, so he was in different pjs than Conner & I grilled DH as to why (I worked last night so just assumed he put them in mis-matched pjs). He says I'm neurotic & yes...I know I am! They even wear matching socks each day!

When they were little, they spit up...A LOT. If I ever changed one of their outfits, the other one got changed too. I would go through quite a few outfits, for both of them, each day. It was crazy. I even coordinated their bibs!

Their shoes are the exact same...but Aiden has bigger feet so I have them labeled with colored stickers under the tongue. Their daycare shoes for outside matched, in different sizes, but then they outgrew them & I had a breakthrough! I let Conner wear Aiden's old ones (in the bigger size) & then bought Aiden a DIFFERENT, NON MATCHING pair! So, now their outside shoes don't match at daycare....*gasp*!

I never thought I'd be like this. I wonder how I'll handle it when they want to dress different. I will 100% respect their choices but I will probably cringe internally ! I will still dress them matching or coordinating for special events and for when we go to crowded places (I almost always dress them the same, in bright colors, if we're in crowded places). Thankfully, I have boys who could care less what they wear, so I can still dress them the way I want to right now!!!!! PHEW!

 

I'm the same as Andrea. Mine match no matter what and it's down the the onesie and socks. I feel OCD coming on if someone is not in the same thing. I literally do. LOVE dressing them the EXACT same!

 

I've created a monster. My girls are almost 3.5 and refuse to be dressed differently. If one gets dirty the other must be changed or she will strip. They have matching shoes too. We don't match pjs because when one outgrows them the other wears them. They are a size different 3 and 4. It drives me crazy for them not to be dressed alike which does happen occasionally.

I dress them alike because A) that's one less choice in the morning B) if one is lost i just have to request people to look for a child that looks the same but is smaller or bigger C) it's just so cute

 

I like to dress in coordinating outfits... but it is very freeing to have boy/girl twins and just dress them how I feel too... we have quite a bit of hand-my-down clothes and its all so cute itself so they don't always match since the clothes are not from boy/girl twin families... just from friends of boys or girls. For their pictures together we do try to coordinate and for some playdates or just for myself, but not always. I am not one to change both babies when one gets messed up... so I'm glad I don't have that OCD gene!

 

I seem to be in the minority but I do dress my boys differently most days. I like buying coordinated outfits and have just a few matching clothes for special occasions. My two are just so different in appearance and personality, that it seems strange dressing them alike. Plus, they have a lot of hand me down clothes from big brother and there's only one of him.

 

I dress them the same down to their socks every day. Unless their playing in the house in some random outfit & we have to rush out the door for some reason, they are always matching I love dressing them alike.. one of the many perks to having twinsters!

 

Yep. It's a sickness, really. I never thought I'd dress them alike, but I do nearly all the time. They either match exactly or have the same outfit in different colors. The look nothing alike, so I think it's a little weird that I dress them alike. They look cute to me that way though. I'll stop doing it when they tell me they want to wear different outfits.

 

I would say 50% of the time I dress them in coordinating outfits, 25% the same and 25% not a like at all. Before they were born I vowed I would never dress them the same but they do look cute when they are dressed alike or similar.

 

I still have some coordinating or matching outfits just because I always buy a season ahead and sometimes things are just so darn cheap that I will buy two of them to save money. But, for the most part, I don't dress them alike as much as I used to.

 

I have fun with coordinating outfits but I don't always have the time to coordinate everything. Usually, I just make sure they both have similar outfit components (pants with tees, or shorts with tanks for instance) and each outfit is cute. Coordinating is kind of a bonus. Matching is not very common, but we do have some matching outfits.

 

Some days I do and some days I dont. I will probably stop when they ask me why they have to wear the same clothes ardon:

 

If we are in public-they are ALWAYS in matching/coordinating outfits. If we are home and going nowhere(and we actually get out of pajamas....), then I may put them in something the same(probably more often than not), or I may do totally different outfits...

 

i have NEVER dressed them the same, lol! once i did, by accident. and they wore matching surfing shirts to my brother's birthday party cuz he surfs.... other than that, i can barely get one boy to have two matching socks--no way could i match the rest of their clothing w/each other. just not gonna happen!

, jl

 

I dress my girls alike and will probably continue to do so until they are old enough to choose what they want to wear. Right now I am taking advantage of the only time I am going to have 100% say in what they wear, I think it's cute, and only picking out one outfit is one less decision I have to make each day.

 

I was soooooo glad when my daughter had a boy and girl twin that way I didnt have to see them dressed the same. she doesnt even corordinate anything.

 

I do have some items that are similar, i.e. their pancake shirts they wore yesterday, but for the most part, only for pictures or special occasions. Of course I don't have same sex twins either.

 

QUOTE(nurseandrea02 @ Apr 26 2009, 07:15 PM) [snapback]1289177[/snapback]
Mine are ALWAYS coordinating or matching. I think I may need therapy . I have very few matching outfits, but I will buy matching if I can't find a coordinating shirt/shorts/outfit & really like the shirt/shorts/outfit. I can think of maybe 4 items I put in their drawers for summer that are 100% matching. However, I think because they've coordinated so long, I cringe when they don't! Today Aiden blew out his diaper, so he was in different pjs than Conner & I grilled DH as to why (I worked last night so just assumed he put them in mis-matched pjs). He says I'm neurotic & yes...I know I am! They even wear matching socks each day!

When they were little, they spit up...A LOT. If I ever changed one of their outfits, the other one got changed too. I would go through quite a few outfits, for both of them, each day. It was crazy. I even coordinated their bibs!

Their shoes are the exact same...but Aiden has bigger feet so I have them labeled with colored stickers under the tongue. Their daycare shoes for outside matched, in different sizes, but then they outgrew them & I had a breakthrough! I let Conner wear Aiden's old ones (in the bigger size) & then bought Aiden a DIFFERENT, NON MATCHING pair! So, now their outside shoes don't match at daycare....*gasp*!

I never thought I'd be like this. I wonder how I'll handle it when they want to dress different. I will 100% respect their choices but I will probably cringe internally ! I will still dress them matching or coordinating for special events and for when we go to crowded places (I almost always dress them the same, in bright colors, if we're in crowded places). Thankfully, I have boys who could care less what they wear, so I can still dress them the way I want to right now!!!!! PHEW!


same here....and I'm pretty sure I need therapy also! :lol:

 

They are almost always wearing something coordinating or matching - or if they are wearing their big brother's hand-me-downs, I try to find similar outfits (see my avatar). I just can't bring myself to waste all of his perfectly good clothes just because there are not matching/coordinating sets!

 

Ok I won't lie. I will third the therapy thing. I swore I would never dress them the same when I was pregnant. I am obsessed with dressing them the same. If one gets dirty the other has to be changed to match. My dh is just as bad about it. They do have some different pj's, but they are the same style and fabric just different patterns on them. I guess they can start dressing differently whenever they are old enough to pick out their own clothes and dressing themselves. Oh and something a little off topic but it drives me crazy that people are always comparing their looks. My mom is the worst. Sometimes when we walk in she will say they look nothing alike and 5 minutes later she can't tell them apart.

 

QUOTE(CROSSTWINS @ Apr 27 2009, 12:12 PM) [snapback]1290160[/snapback]
Oh and something a little off topic but it drives me crazy that people are always comparing their looks. My mom is the worst. Sometimes when we walk in she will say they look nothing alike and 5 minutes later she can't tell them apart.


My MIL does this and it drives me nuts. She will say how Cooper looks so much like me and Clay looks so much like DH, and then call them the wrong names for 10 minutes before I tell her she has mixed them up.



OP - I dress mine coordinating all most all the time. The only time they are not coordination is if one gets dirty. They never match, howeverl.

 

I admit I am compulsive. The boys match unless someone has had an accident. Even jammies. For the most part with accidents I won't change the other one, too unless we are going somewhere (grocery store mismatched is okay, but any kind of play date, party/family get together, etc. they have to match). The boys are frats and look so radically different complete strangers can tell them apart on first sight so having them matching is the only way most folks even realize they are siblings, much less twins.

As for how long this will continue. Umm... as long as I am buying the clothes? Just kidding. Probably until they decide they don't want to match or start picking out their own clothes to wear for the day.

 

i HAVE to dress them the same if not the exact same :lol: i think its because they are Fraternal and look nothing alike and i want people to at least see they are twins i have issues too! :lol:

 

B/G twins here so no I don't.