Does this happen to you?!

Beau, my daughter didn't have to go anywhere else to change, she'd arrived to stay with us. And everyone would have noticed if she hadn't changed - it was only a small gathering in our garden, the garment was very bright and distinctive, and we'd have looked like some deliberate double-act. I minded less than she did - no one wants to find they're dressing like their mother! Coats are a bit different -my other daughter has a couple of coats very similar to mine, but they're fairly neutral (navy and cream) and no one would notice if we wore them together.

Once on a group hoiday with about 12 people, another woman and I had brought the same fancy skirt (M&S) for wearing to dinner in the evenings. Somehow, by a sort of telepathy, we never actually wore them together, although we wouldn't have cared if we had. We did joke about how if we'd known, we could just have packed one skirt between us to wear on alternate nights.

As we (2 DDs &I) live in the same small town with 7 clothes shops, ranging from a more expensive independent, 2 other independents & 4 High St stores there is a good chance we could dress similarly... so far we have not said ' snap'!

Beau, that occurred to me. There have been several times in my life when I have been to an event and someone has been wearing the same outfit as me. I have never felt the need to want to go home and change.

I don't understand why she went home to change? Whoever would notice such a thing and even if they did, why would it matter and why would they care and even more so, why would OP and her daughter care? My daughter and I once wore exactly the same coat for an outing but neither of us went back indoors to change. It might have bothered me when I was 14 but now, not a chance.

Once we were having a summer evening BBQ and our daughter, who lives hundreds of miles away, was arriving that day in time to join us. I opened the door to her and we both shrieked, as we were wearing identical, very distinctive tops. They were from.Next, bright pink with floral embroidery. I offered to get changed, but my daughter couldn't get her top off fast enough.

I do think there's less distinction now between the way the generations dress- at least between women in their 30s/40s and those in their 60s/70s. My daughters and I often borrow a sweater, hoodie or coat from each other when we visit.

I meet up with my DD every few months as she stays over 100 miles away and although I don't wear the same style of clothes as her we text in the morning with the message - stripes, flowers, spots!! We are usually in jeans but quite often used to be wearing very similar tops which was quite an embarrassment for her or so she says (doesn't stop her accepting some things which I know I won't wear again!).

I have 3 DDs and I don’t think I dress like them . However if we are all going out together we often turn up in similar colours. Eg. Shades of blue . There is usually no a chorus of ‘ see we all go the same memo’.

I made the mistake of buying a sweater for DD last Christmas. "It doesn't fit me anywhere" was the verdict.
I couldn't return it so gave it to a grateful friend.
We don't like the same things and my 3 DiLs are all very different. No way I would risk choosing clothes for them.
They give me lovely presents though. Bags and scarves and toiletries I would never buy for myself.

Nope, DD’s have different styles both to each other and to me.
One of them is always wanting my various boots though, ( same size feet) and the other one wheedles necklaces out of me.

My daughter's style is totally different from mine, so no chance of wearing the same outfit. However, she is always raking in the charity bag to see if she fancies anything.
When I was teaching, on numerous occasions, my friend and I used to turn up in the same outfit. In the end, we would check with each other before going on a night out.
One night, three of us turned up wearing the same top! Customers thought we were the waitresses.
Now retired, we are still doing it.

I think if DGD thought she was wearing something similar to her mother or me, she would immediately change her style.

My daughter and I have bought the same joules and Barbour jackets ( but not at the same time.)
We give clothes to one another but unfortunately not shoes, she's 1 size smaller.

I am sure there is less fashion/clothes divide between generations now.

I do think that, in our family, similarity of size and figure make a big contribution to me dressing like DDiL and DGD. DD is a completely different shape to me, the same height, but with a much bigger build, broad backed and big bosomed, which I am neither and her dress style is very different.

oldbatty

No, we do not dress in a similar fashion at all if we're going out, although if we're just hanging around we could.
My DD sound rather like Teetime's, one designerish, the other hippyish and boho

I am not slim. I look like sausages and my bon marche clothes don't help, beige of course.

That's fab you are wearing the same/similar clothes.
Is it true that there's less fashion/clothes age divide than there was?
I find it hard to get out of my leggings due to their comfort. Is anyone else the same?

I have found myself in situations where I, 75, DDiL, 50 and and DGD, 11 are dressed alike. It usually involves, a shirt/sweater, leggings and boots, with a quilted coat.

We are all slim and a similar shape but of varying heights.

My mother’s friend always said that you could always tell women who had daughters, as they were invariably better dressed!

I’m with Greyduster

No daughters here but I am always unreasonably pleased when one of the daughters in law offers me a compliment on my clothes. I do dress in a very similar way to one, think I’d be flattered if there was ever duplication, she would just laugh. .

Happens to me and my lovely daughter all the time, only difference is her ugg boots are real, and mine are last years, fiver from Primark?

No ---eldest daughter is a bit designer and the youngest is BOHO- they consider me Smart!! Ho Ho

My son and I often wear flowery tops.

When she was a teenager, and we were going out, DD would say to me "you're not going out in that are you?" We have wildly different fashion/ dress sense. She is tall, slim and modern. I'm short, plump and stuck in the past, although I do like tunics and leggings these days.

Never. DD wears designer clothing and is a size 6, she also wears very high heels. I, on the other hand, am not a size 6 nor even a 16 so comfort is the order of the day for me.
Yesterday I saw a woman in the ladies of a restaurant, she was everything you don't want to be, bad fashion choice round shouldered and just plain drab. Went to wash my hands and realised it was multiple mirrors