I have a confession to make, I was so excited when I found out I was having a boy. I always wanted a boy and I always wanted him to be my first baby. When we had our second I was really wanting a girl, and when the ultrasound tech told me that my son was going to have a little brother I actually was sad. I felt terrible the whole way walking to the car asking my husband if I was a horrible mother for not being over the moon. Of course my husband being the guy that he is assured me that it wasn’t that I wouldn’t love my son any less but I had an idea in my head that I had to let go of and come to terms with and you know what? He was right. I soon was super excited about bow ties and khakis again and was even more thrilled when we found out we were having a third boy a few years later.
I know you are asking yourself, ‘Wendy, what the heck does this have to do with fashion and style?’….I hear you reader, and this is where I will get to it. My main thing I was hanging onto having a girl was matching or coordinating clothing, but I learned something; I can do that with boys too!!! Chambray shirts, Graphic tees and a lot of coordinating colours and I get all the feels that I was dreaming about.
My favourite way to make this happen is when we do family photo shoots, I pick the dominate colour or fabric and run with it. I was lucky enough to get pictures done recently with the boys by my friend Drew.
I find the simplest way is to start with one complete outfit and then piece every one else together from there. In this case, I knew that I wanted to wear my checked dress and jean jacket; based off of that I pieced together the boys outfits in navy’s, chambray/denim and off whites.
This combination gave us the feel of being in synch with each other without all wearing the same thing. Don’t get me wrong though I love the matching as you will see below.
Now this is actually my favourite way to dress alike with the matching graphic tee or themed graphic tee.
I will admit that I am getting a little bit of resistance from the 8 year old these days but it doesn’t matter if it is Star Wars, a Super Hero or this one which is my personal favourite our Dinosaur shirts from Fletch Robbins we get to have this little connection throughout the day and I love that we are supporting a local artist in the process.
Now I know that they aren’t going to want to dress like me forever but this is the best thing about having three boys when the oldest grows out of it I have two more to wear the shirts 😉 and who knows maybe I will just pack them away for their kids.