Lots of things need to match. There are matches made in heaven. Match games. Color matching. Blue tip matches. Strike anywhere matches. Shouting matches. There's the match point. Mix and match. Matching contributions.
Shoes, socks, mittens, gloves match. Clothes are supposed to match. Sometimes kids go to Disneyworld with their moms and dads and they all dress alike. They match each other. People are matched. Sweater sets. Pajama tops and bottoms. Pots and pans and tops and lids.
Sheet sets. They match. But not many people see them. Why do they need to match? And socks under boots. The socks, theoretically, should match, but why bother?
Well, let me tell you why to bother.
BrilliantEditor and I were making the bed this afternoon and I pulled the clean set of sheets out and discovered that I could find only one pillowcase. BE suggested using non-matching ones or ones that almost matched. I argued that I didn't want non-matching ones and that the ones that almost matched made the sheets look dirty because the colors were just slightly off.
We went with coordinating pillowcases, instead. I wanted the sheet and pillowcase harmony thing. Going to sleep in a bed of polka dot sheets and plaid pillowcases is simply not soothing.
As for the socks and the boots thing, sometimes I don't match my socks under my boots. Sometimes they almost match--two gray wooly socks that are just a bit different--but sometimes I'm trying too hard and it simply doesn't matter. Having the same pattern of stripey socks in different colors is still very obviously not matching. And I think I can feel it through my feet.
But why do I care about these things? BrilliantEditor doesn't care. He sees my non-matching socks and he's a-okay with that.
I say that there must be some feng shui thing going on at the skin-fabric membrane. We think that we need to match clothes so that they look pretty and attractive. I think, however, that there is a more basic need for matchiness. That's what I think.
Posted by dotty at April 3, 2005 11:06 PM