Matching Outfits, Best Friends

Posted for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: DRESSED ALIKE
For the week of JANUARY 12 - JANUARY 18, 2026)

Back when air travel meant dressing up in your smartest, Ruth and I were taken separately, by our mothers, to get outfitted. We were next door neighbor families emigrating together on the same day, but not the same flight.
Turns out we had both been taken separately to Marks & Spencers to get our travel wear (probably in London and Southend) and when we returned to the house we were temporarily sharing discovered we had picked the exact same sky blue jacket and dress outfit. As best friends, we were thrilled.
Ruth is still amazed at that.
It was pretty cool, but my memory is that if you got something at M & S it was definitely not unusual at all to see the same outfit at school or down the road on someone else. In other words, not a hugely different selection (but always excellent quality!)
Taken in Fairfield, CT USA, probably early 1965. We’re 10 years old.)

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