How much do you coordinate your outfits to your group and your location/plans?

[pigletgirl]

Call me the Academy Awards, because I am planning outfit changes, lol. I need to bring extra clothes into the parks on account of having a 3yo. So why not match up his meet and greets. For example at DHS, he have a character breakfast at H&V where he'll wear his favorite Jake shirt, right after we're heading straight to meet his biggest heroes, Buzz and Woody, so a quick T-shirt change and off to meet them. We'll have a mid day break back at the hotel, so wake up from a nap an throw on his favorite Sully shirt and off to meet those two.

Don't even ask about Chef Mickey, lol

Wow! Impressive!

 

[Prose]

I'm with the "wear whatever is decent and clean" group. DH would stage a protest if I ever suggested anything matching (not that I ever would), DD is too much into fashion, and I don't like to wear shirts with large writing or designs, and would just be plain uncomfortable walking around matching. But if you like that sort of thing, more power to you.

 

[Mrs. Toaster]

I do think it's cute when I see people in coordinated outfits, but for us, we are just happy if we all show up with enough undies and socks for the week! Not to mention, enough toothbrushes...we have hit the hotel gift ship for those before!

 

[momof2n2]

Most definitely my kids will be coordinated! They are almost every day anyway so Disney will be no different.

They will be a mix of smocked and appliqued clothes with their names on them. I'm Southern. We like our names on stuff.

I like this.

We absolutely coordinate every day to the park/activity for the three kids and DH and I at least stay with the color scheme if not coordinating as well.

Last trip I had two sets of matching shirts made for entire family(Animal Kingdom and MVMCP) and got more nice comments about them. I even had people stopping and asking if we bought them at disney b/c they wanted them...they were all very suprised and disappointed when I told them I had the custom made before the trip.

THIS - we are ALWAYS stopped by folks who ask if we bought our shirts somewhere in WDW. I'm sure there are many who snicker, but we are always amazed at how many people compliment them. We also are regularly complimented by CMs.

My DDaD will never let it go, when my DM picked out a tee shirt for him to wear the day we were going to Animal Kingdom. None of us really paid attention until we were going to the turnstiles and my DD got a few raised eyebrows.

The front of the Tee read "There is room for all of God's creatures" and had animals like a deer, turkey, bear etc on it while the back read "Right next to the potatoes and gravy" and had a dinner plate of food.

From now on when he wears that tee at Disney he makes sure we are not going to the Animal Kingdom.

 

[momof2n2]

sometimes we match completely







Sometimes we just coordinate colors to make the photos easier on the eyes:








But there is always a plan.... I know I will be much more pleased with the photos if I take the time to group outfits before we leave home. And I've never had a complaint from any of the kids.

 

[momof2n2]

Part of our fun is matching shirts. I make a t-shirt for each day (or sometimes Hawaiian shirts if we need collars) Doesn't matter if there are just 2 of us, or all 18!

Most of my t-shirts are corruptions of Signs or attractions from past trips (i.e. the Yeti and the slogan NEverest, Tiger path sign, all the words to the songs from Pirates, Grim grinning ghosts, etc) It has become a family tradition, and now even new family members ask what the shirts will be for the next trip.

Love these!

My wife likes to theme her outfit and my sons to our plans.

On the drive from Baltimore to Orlando, she wore a Corvette t-shirt and my son wore Cars because "we spent all day in the car".

On our MK day, she was disappointed because she wore a Tinkerbell shirt but couldn't put my son in his Lost Boys shirt because it was too warm. I later pointed out that he was dressed like Mr Smee.

We sometimes wear Star Wars shirts to DHS. (My sons shirt has Darth Vader and says "Dad is coming. Look busy."

My wife and I also have coordinated OKW shirts (one Mickey and one Minnie) and Dinosaur shirts (one vegetarian and one carnivore).

Love these, too!

My DM always brings along this polka dotted shirt on all our family vacations since about 1999.

In 2013, we decided to secretly make polka dotted tees for everyone else and the day that she chose to wear that shirt, we would all wear it. We called it "operation polka". Some of us had to do a quick change as they were dressed before DM. She got a big kick out of it though and we all 'matched' that day.

Oh - this is fantastic. I bet that was FUN. LOL.

 

[Crl1817]

sometimes we match completely







Sometimes we just coordinate colors to make the photos easier on the eyes:








But there is always a plan.... I know I will be much more pleased with the photos if I take the time to group outfits before we leave home. And I've never had a complaint from any of the kids.

Love your pictures!

 

[Gr8t Fan]

I do think it's cute when I see people in coordinated outfits, but for us, we are just happy if we all show up with enough undies and socks for the week! Not to mention, enough toothbrushes...we have hit the hotel gift ship for those before!

Your group sounds a LOT like mine .

 

[monaleigh70]

My DDaD will never let it go, when my DM picked out a tee shirt for him to wear the day we were going to Animal Kingdom. None of us really paid attention until we were going to the turnstiles and my DD got a few raised eyebrows.

The front of the Tee read "There is room for all of God's creatures" and had animals like a deer, turkey, bear etc on it while the back read "Right next to the potatoes and gravy" and had a dinner plate of food.

From now on when he wears that tee at Disney he makes sure we are not going to the Animal Kingdom.

Years ago, when my daughter was about 12 we went to WDW and I had a black tee shirt with a quote from Shakespeare's Henry VI. The quote was "First thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers". I'd had the tee shirt for years and thought nothing of it, until an irate lawyer tore a strip off me on the ride over to Tom Sawyers island. He was so mad, in my face, apoplectic mad, spraying spit all over me. People were shocked by his behavior and needless to say, when I got over to the island I went into the washroom and turned it inside out. The funny thing is, my daughter liked wearing that tee shirt, thank goodness she wasn't wearing it that day. As for OP's question, no, we never coordinate or wear location-specific outfits.

 

[Caboosey]

I have done some very light DisBounding in the past, so I definitely think about what clothes I'll wear to each park. I wore Piglet ears and a pink striped shirt to Crystal Palace to meet Piglet, for example, and my pictures are great! (Piglet gets really excited if you're dressed like him!)

This next trip, I'll be Alice-esque for 1900 Park Fare. Not sure what I'm doing for my other days though.

 

[mickeyluv'r]

I just thought about this question in another completely different context: fine dining.

In that context we absolutely dress appropriately based on our planned location. We still stick with comfortable footwear and clothes that are practical park wear. No ties or spike heels.

 

[Carrie772]

I see people all the time in the parks and restaurants who have clearly planned out their outfits to go with their current location (Star Wars shirts at Hollywood Studios, clothing about Horizons at Epcot, Polynesian prints at 'Ohana, safari style clothes at Animal Kingdom, etc.) and my family is no different. My husband will wear his Horizons or Mad Genius shirt at Epcot, we wear our "I'll be your Minnie/Mickey!" shirts when we eat at Chef Mickey's, and our Turkey Leg and Dole Whip shirts at Magic Kingdom. We are even dorky enough to coordinate with each other. For example, he will wear his Doc shirt when I wear my Snow White shirt. I have also seen people in the parks who are just all normal about it and wear what they happen to wear that day. So what kind of tourist are you? Do you fully coordinate? Put in some effort to coordinate? Coordinate very little? Don't really care and just wear whatever you feel like that morning?

When the kids were little I would make matching t-shirts for them and hubby and I would wear the same color shirts to match them. Now, we just have "blue day" or "red day" just so we can have pics that are frameable. Is that a word?