Dressing Matchy-Matchy or Not
July 24, 2008
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When I was pregnant with twins, I stated (almost daily) that I would never dress them alike. I felt it was an offense on the idea that we are all unique in the eyes of God and it somehow took something away from the baby if they were dressed alike, blended in, not different, etc. After the birth of our twins (one survived) we didn’t have to worry about matching outfits anymore.
When we discovered we were pregnant with quadruplets, I resumed my investigation into dressing them alike. I learned that people actually DO have an opinion on this, whether they are parents of multiples or not. I also learned that women will dress their children alike even when they aren’t twins, but are perhaps close in age. This always baffled me until I had a set of girls and a set of boys…it’s fun! That’s why we do it!
The only thing cuter than kids clothing is seeing it repeated on a sibling. We started out dressing them alike for photos and now we dress them alike only when we go out in public. At home, we don’t dress them alike. We figure at this age it is ok, once they get towards school age, we want to encourage them to be themselves and be different, etc. In the meantime, I am having fun dressing the girls alike, the boys alike, sometimes all 4 alike and even Big Sister likes to join in on the fun.
It is also fun to dress in coordinating outfits, which is probably easier to find when shopping second hand (I’m a big fan of this) and also when running into issues like not being able to find 2, 3, or 4, etc. of something in the same size.
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Written by Tracy Jo · Filed Under Special Deliveries
I have twins, and I used to dress them alike all the time, however, now that they are 3, they have began to choose their own clothes and they don’t seem to want to match much anymore!
My girls are 3 years apart, but the grandparents still like to send matching outfits for them when they can find them in the two right sizes. They will usually match for holidays (Easter dresses, Christmas, etc.) but the rest of the time I just let them pick what they want to wear. Sometimes they end up matching, but most of the time they don’t.
I remember being in school and having twins in two different classes that would trade places and trick the teachers because they wore matching outfits. I swore if I ever had twins I would never dress them the same just so they couldn’t get away with stuff like that.