Weird Thing #11 Match their do’s and threads

It’s not the desire to match that’s at work here but the desire to trick, as in, “If I have a curly bob like my daughter, people will believe that I am young and perky too.”  We imagine this technique works best when you’re going into the witness protection program, but never mind.  Mom’s minds are bendable to all things half true; other mothers are willing to embrace the unbelievable if it gives them something new and fun to gossip about. (How else would all those mom friendships survive?)  Note: Don’t think that matching hair color gives you free license to embrace mother-daughter dressing.  It is not cute or even mildly amusing to see a mother dressed in the same outfit as her daughter.  It’s scary and reminds us of the Stepford Wives.