People Watching! Same Outfits.

[bjscheel]

Not me, that I can recall. I shop at thrifts a lot so most of my clothes haven't been in stores for a while. I know when we were at Wilderness at Wisconsin Dells, SIL and I paid attention to swimsuits and we noted that among all the hordes of July 4th guests, we never saw any duplicates. I did recognize some as being from Lands' End, like mine.

This winter, though, DD13 had just gotten her glasses that afternoon and was feeling kind of grown-up and "teenager-y" with them. We walked into a mall and passed a group of teen girls. A pretty girl from the group had on the same plaid Roxy winter coat as DD and told her "nice coat". DD was then flying even higher when she realized that her coat from the consignment was also being worn by a cool girl at the mall...

 

[njmom47]

Yes, a bathing suit...visitng my dmom last spring, I bought a bathing suit and when I went to the pool, another lady had the same top. I was 50 and the lady in the pool was probably 75. Not sure what that says about my taste...

 

[SleepyatDVC]

I had on the exact white strapless prom dress as another girl. AND we shared the same limo.

Unfortunately, it looked better on HER...

 

[averysmom]

When my kids were smalled I bought a lot of gymboree b/c of the sales and the resales and I often saw matching outfits at Disney!

 

[Katy Belle]

In Band yesterday they had a guest conductor...a composer that came to put on a clinic and conduct their concert last night. DS said the composer was wearing the same blue and white striped shirt as one of the students. They had a laugh and took a photo.

 

[Reagan&Co.]

I often run into other people with the same shirt on, usually when I'm out shopping. They usually don't act like they notice. I have mentioned it to friends, and they act mortified to be caught with the same outfit on as someone else. WHY??? Whn you buy off the rack at a department store and they have two dozen shirts to sell, you're gonna see it again!!!!

What is odd to me is how different the same shirt, dress, or swimsuit looks on everyone else. I am tall and flat-chested. Since EVERYONE has a bigger chest than me and is usually shorter, it really changes the dimensions and ends up not even looking like the same shirt!

 

[OhMari]

I completely forgot about this. I was a sophomore in h.s. In 1978. malls just started popping up in the Midwest, but the biggest place to get teenage clothes was JCPenny. There had to be about 15 of us in the high school, with this Peasant "flannel" shirt, from JCP. We all got together and and agreed to wear this shirt every Wednesday.

 

[emksmama]

My mom and I have gone shopping at Kohl's separately, and then shown up at a family dinner wearing the same top in different colors, or she'll buy me a top that she thinks I'll like, only to find out I already bought it. Yeah, we have a LOT of the same taste!

I do remember going to my high school boyfriend's senior prom (we went to different schools) and a girl there was wearing the exact same prom dress as me, and it looked so much better on her. Oh well...

 

[vickalamode]

When we went to Disney over Halloween last year, I had bought a shirt at Target that had Mickey and Minnie dressed up in costumes and it said Trick or Treat...I saw at least a hundred people wearing that same shirt over the course of the week we were there!

 

[si-am]

When I was a teenager, I went to WDW with my family and one day my dad wore this horribly gaudy/tacky Hawaiian shirt. I think he got it from Sears. At the MK, he was sitting on a bench on Main Street waiting for the fireworks, when lo and behold, some other guy wearing the SAME SHIRT came and sat next to him. It was hilarious. I took a picture but who knows where it is now? I wish I could find it!

 

[canopynut66]

see it sometimes and people watching is a favorite way for us to sit have a iced tea and relax. we also wonder if the families we see all dressed the same have a outift that matches for every day there? or do they do laundry every night as we will see them again at some park with same outfits...or some other park but maybe different color shirts but all matching. Is a fun thing to do to try and see if you can match your own outfit your wearing though...

 

[snoopy5386]

Not me, but one halloween when I was teaching middle school another female teacher dressed up as a teenage boy for halloween - video game t-shirt, baggy jeans, hat, headphones, etc. and a boy in one of our classes wore the exact same shirt as her that day. He was soooooooo embarrassed!

 

[DisMN]

Fun thread!

Several years ago DH was wearing his pretty unusual button up the front bowling style shirt, very bold red with a pic on the back of Dogs Playing Cards on it. Guy sitting in front of us at the bird show was wearing the same shirt!!
He and DH shook hands after the show and complimented each other on their good taste. LMAO!

 

[superme80]

Back when I was working retail, my co-worker and I came to work dressed exactly the same. We were wearing black pants, this pink and gray button down shirt and black flats. I was just glad to see I actually had pretty decent taste in clothes! We both got a good laugh out of it.

 

[LorlovesStitch]

A few weeks after we returned from our WDW trip in August, I saw a woman in the local grocery store with the same Disney Dooney and Bourke purse as me! I pointed it out and we both laughed!

 

[JCMHutch]

DH and I were walking in MK (this was a couple of trips ago) and he says "hey, she has your shirt". I look over and there is a girl, probably in her early 20's, wearing the same Carnival Cruise line shirt I had on. I don't think she noticed me since she was with a fairly big group but we saw her several times as we wandered MK that day.

As previous posters have said - it is amusing to see how different a shirt can look on someone else given height, build, etc.

 

[MinnieForMe]

All the time when my daughter was wearing Gymbo. There were days I would walk into her classroom and all the girls were coordinated in similar Gymbo outfits. That's why I'm now searching for a more unusual brand.

 

[NJtoATL]

May sound a little vain but..... when I notice that some one has the same shirt, pants, shoes, etc..... at work, I stop wearing it to work (I'm a teacher). I will wear it on the weekends when I know I won't see that person. Besides, little ones love to tell you that you are dressed like some one else.

 

[LSchrow]

i've seen people with the same shirt as me, DH, and kids on occassion....but the oddest was when i was napping by the BWV quiet pool (which was actually quiet that day, with only a few people there). i awoke to the sound of two women talking as they passed me, and the first thing i see is MY bathing suit on someone else!
it was a blue and white print tankini and very distinctive....i wound up chatting with the lady.
sad news is that she paid less for hers (mine cost about $100 from macy's, hers about $60+ elsewhere); good news was that mine was a smaller size

 

[Fjobe]

I didn't notice anyone wearing the same shirt as I was while at Disney. I did notice another little girl in the kiddie pool had the same Minnie Mouse swimming suit as my younger DD. It was funny because my daughter walked right up to the little girl and excitedly pointed it out, but the other girl didn't seem to understand or notice it was the same.

Not matching clothes, but DH pretty much only has shirts that have our state college football team on them. Everyday he had multiple comments on his clothes.