what do your children wear to nursery?

[jenk1]

i put clothes from places like George,Next and Dunnes on DD for nursery as i think its not worth ruining best clothes but the other day when i was collecting dd, a mum was there with her dd who was very nicely dressed in what looked designer clothes and she was looking at me and dd a bit, down her noseish.
im probably being oversensitive but ive been thinking all weekend, am i wrong sending DD in a top thats not brand new or posh.

loveangel must admit the 1st couple of days when ds started nursery i did similar tank top combo's .. didn't last long either !

She tends to go a lot in the t-shirt that got covered in paint there. She is straight to the easel or the sand pit, water thingey, so old jeans or trackies, and some of her used to be niceish tops that she's already ruined there

well my dd1 used to go in cherokee/tesco t-shirts and 3/4 length cotton trousers that I had sewn for summer. For winter - tesco jeans, and long sleeved tesco shirts with a tesco fleece.

now at kindy - dd1 wears kindy logo shirt and 3/4 trousers that I have sewn. FOr wimter - kindy shirt with skivvy underneath with hand me down track pants of stretch fleecy pants.

Our nursery has a polo top. You get supplied one when you sign your kid up. They want all the kids wearing them and any bottom half clothes they want. DS usually wears his polo, a sweatshirt and navy blue trousers from such high end stores as Ethel Austin, Poundies and Matalan.

My DD has a uniform too, and I would much rather she didn't. I'm sick of having to wash the same outfit four times a week because she's been at nursey 4 hours and come home as though she has been used as an experiment in a Vanish ad. It means that every night I have to put a wash on just so she can have clean clothes in the morning, even if there's naff all to wash with them. Now, if I could just put her in jeans and a T-shirt (like all non-school days) I may get away with not doing special loads of laundry for a toddler's school uniform. She does look sweet in it, but it's a PITA

wee one wears whatever is clean and whatever i find when i am foraging in the drawers

nah, send them in whatever I can find that's clean and either ironed, or might pass as having been ironed at some point, but could just as easily look crumpled because she's 4 and is all over the place.

Whatever is clean and easy to wash when she comes home covered in stuff.

something that you don't mind being trashed, or in our case what she would wear if she was at home!

another one who only has hand me downs & supermarket stores.
she does have some 'posh' clothes from end of season sales in monsoon boden etc, so i keep them for when I get to spend the day with her!
mind you, in our family we all keep clothes & hand them on. dd had some lovely liberty silk pinafores from the early 60s, they had been worn by 11 nother family members before she had her turn!
now she's got to the falling over in the playground stage, clothes don't last so long, and I've had to buy her clothes! a real shock to the system.

Whatever random garment he takes a fancy to that morning...

dd goes to nursery in mismatched clothes totally unsuitable for the weather, with her hair sticking up.

she's clean at least.

not worth the fight in the morning, she refuses to wear anything i choose.

then as we go through the door i see calm mummies with little girls in ribbons, frills and general colour co-ordination and i go thinking of the beautiful clothes in the wardrobe.

Trackie bottoms and tops in winter, old jeans and tshirts in warmer weather.

Hair up in a ponytail.

No way I'm putting her in her nice togs to go to nursery - she's there to play and get mucky.