The Beckhams show up in matching soccer kits. P. Diddy and the fam rock the boy band look together. Even the Jolie-Pitts, the family that's trying to rewrite the rules for doing things the "family way" has been snapped out and about in duplicate duds. But what about the rest of us?
Is imitation the best form of flattery when it's mom making baby look like mini me? I thought a run-down of celebrity families and their twinsets over at Stylelist stretched the definition of matching. Accusing Katie Holmes of dressing Suri in her likeness simply because Mom and baby are both wearing red? Poking at Reese because she and Ava are wearing shorts and tank tops? If that's the definition of matching, I'm committing a mini-me moment every day I dress my daughter in her blue winter coat and then throw on my own parka - a different style but the same color.
And let's face it, I'd hardly expect Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz to show up at a Galaxy game sporting a RedBulls jersey. Or wearing Landon Donovan's number. Even Stylelist has to bend the rules for Beckman, right?
But matching Mom and baby happens more often than you think out here in the real world. As a family portrait photographer, I get plenty of calls in the run-up to the holidays from families asking me to weigh in on their wardrobe choices. "We were thinking white shirts for everyone, jeans for the kids . . . does that sound OK?" And let's face it, we pick out our kids' clothes for the first seven years or so of their lives. Seeing as most of us pick out our own clothes too (Lawd help you if Mom is still buying your underwear), it's no wonder their taste seems uncannily similar to our own.
So what do you think, are you dressing a dead-ringer, or do you leave that to the stars?
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