And if you would, why? And if you wouldn’t, why?
Also I think it would have been cool to have a twin in a way. You could totally pull off some great gags.
If you do decide to dress them alike, make sure one wears her hair in a flip, and the other wears her hair in a page-boy and talks in a fake Scottish accent.
Otherwise, you might lose your mind.
I think its a Major League rule that all members of the Twins should dress alike on the field.
Well, I don’t have twins. I do however, have two boys who are two years apart (seven and five). Yet, because the five year old is so big, he is the same size as the older son.
We often dress them alike and many people ask us if they are twins.
If we actually had twins, why not? There are some that will say that it’s important to maintain their seperate identities, yada, yada yada. To an extent, they are correct. You shouldn’t necessarily assume that what is good for one is good for the other. However, at a young age, I don’t think dressing them alike will result in serious harm. And, besides, it’s cute.
Zev Steinhardt
I have twins. No, they aren’t identical, but when they were small they looked pretty much alike anyway. No, we never dressed them alike. Why not?
“Little kunilou has a cold.”
“Uhh, which one is he?”
“Loukuni, stop that!”
“I’m not loukuni.”
“They’re adorable! Who’s who?”
“Uhhh. . .”
Running after one kid is hard enough. Two is geometrically harder (like 4x instead of 2x). I’m not about to give them any edge.
I have twins who are fifteen now, and I’ve always dressed them identically in adorable party dresses, big hair ribbons, frilly panties, and patent-leather maryjanes.
Mary’s turned out pretty well, but Jack’s a bit of a mess.
Ike, I just choked on my potato chips. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day! Thank you for starting my afternoon off with a huge smile!
Would I dress twin children alike? Heck, no! IMHO, except maybe for babies, that falls squarely under the “vaguely creepy” category that already has its own thread. And the older the kids are, the creepier it is.
Thanks, **Missy,**sweetie, but you should really credit Eve with it.
We conferred and decided that she should do the Patty Duke joke and then I would follow up four posts later with the mixed-gender wisecrack.
I wanted to change “party dresses” to “party frocks” to avoid repetition in the line, but she insisted that I shouldn’t edit her.
“Wildest Bill,” of course, is a sock puppet that we maintain jointly to set us up with straight lines.
I’m 17 months older than my sister and our parents dressed us exactly alike from my first memories until I was about 8 or 9. We were also about the same size, and our names are Tracy and Stacey. Everybody thought we were twins, even though we look nothing alike! I know twins don’t always look alike, but I always got the feeling that they were just saying how much we looked alike because they thought we were twins. Worse, when they found out we weren’t they always thought I was the younger one. Grrrrrr…I have issues about that to this day.
Okay, not really, but when I think about it, I’m still pretty annoyed by the whole thing. Thanks for bringing it up. 
Needless to say, if I had twins, they would have different everything! Although I do dress TinyTot in matching outfits with his Dad or My Dad, but that’s totally different. I’ll also dress him up in outfits that are meant to match his girl cousin’s (you know the ones they sell for family portraits), but nobody thinks they are twins because one is black and the other is white.
Somewhat like zev_steinhardt, I have boys that are almost 3 years apart, and when I used to pick out their clothes for them, I found that I usually put then in complimentary clothes. Not the SAME outfit, but rather similar. Both wearing (non-identical) denim shirts and blue jeans, for example.
If I had twins, I imagine I would often do the same thing. Not identical clothes, but outfits that complimented one another, or at the very least wouldn’t clash. Maybe the same outfit in different colours. And I would probably do their hair differently.
This would all go out the window when they got old enough to pick out their own clothes, of course.
** zev ** I’m crushed!
I have a theory that we parent either as we were parented or “by God I’m not going to do ** that** to ** my ** kid”
I belong to the latter. I was 2 years younger than my sister, our grandma bought us matching dresses all the time, in her quest to “treat us equally”. I hated it. HATED it.
So, no, I wouldn’t do that do my kid (s)
**
I’m sorry, wring. I didn’t mean to disappoint…
With us, for the most part, it’s a matter of simplicity.
My wife goes looking for an outfit for one of the boys for Shabbos or the holidays. She sees a nice one. She knows the other son will need one too. So, just pick up two.
Besides, my younger son has a tendency to wander. While we watch him like a hawk, I feel better when I think about the possible scenario:
**Police:**OK, Mr. Steinhardt, what does he look like? How tall is he? What was he wearing?
Me: (grabbing my older son) He looks like this, he’s this tall and was wearing this.
Besides that, the boys have never mentioned anything about it…yet. If they do, we can always stop.
Zev Steinhardt
Why don’t you just ask the twins how they want to dress?
Am I the only one with twins here? Good! I can sound like a pundit.
The first thing my wife did when we brought our daughters home is cut off their wristbands. The second thing she did was to show me the slight difference in their left ears so I could tell them apart. I’m still not sure if they are who they started out as.
For the first year or two they were so identical that there was no way I was going to dress them alike. Except at Christmas–who could resist?
Later one discovered food and the other decided she wanted to be a super model. They are much easier to tell apart.
I think that dressing them alike would be a bad idea because it would reduce the total number of outfits avalible: if you have $X to spend on clothes and you buy all matching outfits, you end up with half as many alternitives for them to dress in. O nthe other hand, it would make shopping quicker. THen again, at a young age, if twin A barfed all over thier blue jumper, would you have to change both of them into thier green jumpers or just the soiled on? It would be more work, but if you didn’t, then your laundry cycle would be off.
When Iwas in high school I knew a pair of twins who still wore the dame thing every day, did thier hair in the same way. Were I a parent I think I would have done everything possible to discourage this.
** zev ** not to worry, I still think you’re one of the good guys! 
** Manda Jo ** you reminded me of another point. When I was in H/S, there were only 4 people shorter than me. Half of them were the Smith twins. They, too dressed alike, wore their hair alike etc.
I heard from a friend who went to the 25th reunion - they’re still doing that. Sad.
I would dress them more or less alike and then, when older, ask them about their preference.
You know what’s really bad? When two people who aren’t twins make a point to dress alike almost every day. In grade school, maybe, but high school? Boy, those two girls gave me the wiggins…
Yes and No.
I might buy them SOME matching outfits, and similiar things in different colors, to avoid rivalry and she has this! He got that! But in general, I would probably treat them like regular siblings.
Twins may be VERY close, but they ARE two different people.
Two of my cousins are twins, and they’re now in their first year of college (different ones). When they were little, my aunt dressed them in the same outfits, but in different colors. They also were not identical, which helped.
Nobody told me about being a sock puppet I was told just to be the staight man and just how are y’all maintaining me because I haven’t received any cash lately. Cough it up or I am going back to being funny.