To just buy dd1 cheap play clothes and not the fashion ones she wants

[greenwichgroove]

Because she's such a scruff and although she's almost ten I have had to throw three tshirts and a pair of trousers all less than a fortnight old away today that are completely wrecked!

She is such a tom boy skidding on her knees, climbing, rolling around in the mud with the dog.

YANBU

get yourself to primark or the supermarket and buy her jeans for rolling around in

Why did you have to throw them away- can't you wash them and let her wear them for play?

Buy 95% cheap play clothes and a few nice ones.

Worth looking at the 'boy's clothes, they're often a bit more durable and colours which don't show the odd mud/grass stain too much, IME (I have a similar sort of DD, now she's 13 she sometimes actually thinks and wears dark trackies rather than her nice aqua ones if mud is anticipated!)

DD1 used to wear boys combat trousers when she was younger until she realised they were boys ones they dont seem to make durable clothes for older girls imo

Seeker they are completely wrecked, I've stitched them twice, big marks all over them and rust .Charity shop sells this type of clothes rags for money so they have them.

I offered her a lovely pair of dark combat trousers the other day and she turned her nose up.

Make her wear shorts, then at least you can dunk her legs in the bath

I would say 95% cheap and then 5% 'special' clothes for when she needs to look presentable.

My DD loves everything pink and frilly , I've not encouraged it but she is naturally drawn to it. However, she refuses to have her hair 'up' or cut so always looks like a pink, frilly, orphan-Annie!

YANBU. Perhaps you could search on E-Bay for a bundle of nice clothes. This can work out less expensive than high street shopping, plus you can get some unusual stuff.

Make her wear shorts

good idea, if she rips her knees they'll heal . I'm sure that's why small schoolboys were always made to wear shorts in the past

what kind of clothes does she like to wear OP ?

She likes to wear "funky" stuff.
Things with fancy buttons or zips or patterns. I struggle a bit as she is small for her age and its hard finding stuff not too babyish.

I did pick up a couple of tshirts from primark for a couple of pound that she loves.

She's sen and goes everywhere at hundred miles an hour and then cries when her stuff is wrecked :(

Her favourite thing in the world is an olympic tracksuit a friend got her but its really light coloured and I have taken to hiding it unless we are out somewhere as she will be hysterical if that's ruined.

Surely playclothes should be made from old curtains by a nun turned governess?

Marks and rust wouldn't bother me, I would've made her wear them.

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I smell a cheaply-dressed child competitive thread looming

I'll start. DD is in sackcloth and ashes. Beat that.

cheap doesn't have to be unfasionable.

Set her a budget and let her lose in primark or h&m

Have you tried looking for stuff on Ebay.

I loathe Primark/George et al so I buy nicer stuff second hand on ebay.

because she has special needs would she not wear just wrecked stuff or would that upset her, I would just buy her cheap or second hand and let her loose .