"Hey, Rachel, my mother has a set, too — we could use a matching set".
Her solution: Don't worry about ordering a matching set — just pick the two you like best.
She paid about $6 for a matching set, which contained three pairs of earrings and a necklace.
Mickelson and his wife, Amy, purchased a Mercedes two weeks ago, and today's victory gave them a matching set.
The trick was to meet someone with similar baggage, and form a matching set, but how would one go about finding such a person?
Should you buy a matching set? "I'm all about the mismatch," said Ms. Davis, who often finds unique mugs at antiques stores.
Her shoes clamor for attention with ridiculous puns, but the closet is thrown into a frenzy when she picks out two shoes that are not a matching set.
Consequently, as the forms of jewels tended to become stereotyped, the matching set of jewels, or parure, became the dominant style in jewelry.
Charles Manghis, a Nantucket scrimshaw artist who completed commissions for President George W. Bush and his father on a matching set of antique whale teeth, said he always strives for historic accuracy.
When he entered Columbia College on a full scholarship, a neighbor, Frieda Urey, the wife of the Nobel Prize-winning Columbia chemist Harold Urey, was kind enough to make him a matching set of curtains and bedcovers to take along.
