{"id":10761,"date":"2017-03-12T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T12:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=10761"},"modified":"2017-03-12T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T12:40:44","slug":"couples-as-gasp-twinsies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=10761","title":{"rendered":"Couples as&#8230;gasp&#8230;Twinsies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>By Kelly Hockenberry<\/strong>, <em>Columnist, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/KellyColumnNewest916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3470\" src=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/KellyColumnNewest916-251x300.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>I have a confession to make. I like when couples coordinate their outfits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Calm down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019m not talking matching identically&#8230;but, putting a little effort into complimenting each other is chic, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I stumbled across this article about a couple from Japan who has been dressing alike for the past 37 years!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Before you scoff, they seem quite happy AND they are much cooler than you with over <i>65 thousand <\/i>Instagram followers. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">I included the direct link to the story (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2n7GlhE\">here<\/a>) so that you could peruse their photos at your leisure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Twinsies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3471\" src=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Twinsies.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>This shot happened to be one of my favorites. I\u2019m crazy for buffalo plaid and who doesn\u2019t love red lipstick for a pop of color on an otherwise neutral palette? Just my thoughts. Anyway, when I was scrolling through the images, my mind was racing with questions:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Did this phenomenon start by happenstance or was it strategically planned?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Who gets to decide what they should wear every morning? (I\u2019m really hoping that it\u2019s her) Do they do a lot of their shopping at the same store&#8230;like JCrew or the GAP? Because, that would seem like the easiest way to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Hello? Am I the only person finding this concept fascinating? My husband and boys are nodding. In fact, they would like me to say that they can think of nothing worse than a significant other forcing you to dress like they do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">I\u2019m assuming that my kids feel this way because it\u2019s causing flashbacks of the matching rompers from their childhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">THEY WERE SO CUTE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">While I do not think that I could ever convince my spouse to harmonize his fashion choices with mine on the daily&#8230;I can imagine a scenario (like a wedding or fancy party) where he would pacify me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">What do you think? Yay or nay? Leave your comments below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Happy Weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kelly Hockenberry, Columnist, The Times I have a confession to make. I like when couples coordinate their outfits. Calm down. I\u2019m not talking matching identically&#8230;but, putting a little effort into complimenting each other is chic, in my opinion. I stumbled across this article about a couple from Japan who has been dressing alike for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3913,35,3162],"class_list":["post-10761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-couples","tag-fashion","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10762,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10761\/revisions\/10762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}